(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, job-seeking benefits shall be payable for up to the specified number of days for which benefits are payable under Article 50(1) during a 12-month period following the date of job-leaving to which the current eligibility for job-seeking benefits relates.
(2) Those who report their unavailability for work due to pregnancy, childbirth, child care, or for other reasons prescribed by Presidential Decree to the employment security office within the 12-month period prescribed in paragraph (1) are entitled to be paid job-seeking benefits for up to the number of days of benefits payable under Article 50(1) during a benefit period determined by adding the period during which such person is unavailable for work to the 12-month period (if the benefit period exceeds four years, it shall be four years). <Amended on May 26, 2020>
(3) In any of the following cases, the report prescribed in paragraph (2) shall be deemed to have been filed on the relevant first day of medical care: <Amended on Dec. 31, 2008; May 26, 2020>
1. Where medical care benefits prescribed in Article 40 of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act are paid;
2. Where a need to receive medical care for a period longer than three months due to any disease or injury resulted in job-leaving, and the act of seeking employment was impractical during which the job-leaving occurred, as confirmed by the opinion of the physician in charge clearly stating the period of medical care and the state of being sick or injured and the business owner's opinion that the job-leaving occurred for the sake of receiving medical care.