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Employment Insurance Act — Article 64 (Early re-employment allowances)

고용보험법 제64조

This English translation is based on the Korean text effective 2025-10-01. The Korean law has since been amended (current version effective 2026-09-18) — check the Korean original.

(1) Early re-employment allowances shall be payable to an eligible recipient (excluding foreign employees defined in Article 2 of the Act on the Employment of Foreign Workers) who secures a stable job or commences one's own for-profit business and meets the standards prescribed by Presidential Decree.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), early re-employment allowances shall not be payable to an eligible recipient who received early re-employment allowances for a period prescribed by Presidential Decree preceding the date he or she secures a stable job or commences his or her own for-profit business.

(3) The amount of early re-employment allowances shall be computed in proportion to the remaining number of days of job-seeking benefits payable in accordance with the criteria prescribed by Presidential Decree.

(4) When applying the provisions of this Act (excluding Articles 61 and 62) to a recipient of early re-employment allowances, job-seeking benefits for the number of days calculated by dividing the amount of the early re-employment allowances paid by the daily amount of job-seeking benefits prescribed in Article 46 are deemed to have been paid. <Amended on May 26, 2020>

(5) Anyone who hires an eligible recipient shall be qualified for incentives, as prescribed by Presidential Decree, for contributing to early reemployment and thus reducing the payment period of job-seeking benefits. <Amended on May 26, 2020>

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