(1) An artist shall be eligible for job-seeking benefits only when he or she satisfies all of the following requirements; provided, subparagraph 6 shall apply only to a person who has been a short-term artist at the time of the most recent job-leaving: <Amended on Jan. 15, 2021>
1. The number of qualifying days in covered employment during the 24-month period prior to the date of job-leaving shall be not less than nine months;
2. He or she shall be able and willing to work but unable to secure job (including being engaged in a for-profit business; hereafter the same shall apply in this Chapter);
3. The reasons for job-leaving shall not fall under any of the disqualifying conditions set forth in Article 58 that are applied mutatis mutandis in Article 77-5(2); provided, where the head of an employment security office deems that an artist left a job due to a decrease in income as prescribed by Presidential Decree at the time of job-leaving, such case shall not be deemed to constitute a disqualifying condition set forth in Article 58, notwithstanding subparagraph 2a of Article 58 which applies mutatis mutandis under Article 77-5(2);
4. The artist shall have maintained the insured status as an insured artist for at least three months in the 24 months prior to the date of job-leaving;
5. The insured worker shall be actively seeking reemployment;
6. All of the following requirements shall be met:a. The number of days of labor provision during the one month prior to the date of applying for recognition of eligibility for benefits shall be less than 10 days, or there is no record of labor provision for 14 consecutive days prior to the date of applying for recognition of eligibility for benefits;b. Where an artist has left another job due to a reason constituting a disqualification condition under Article 58 which is applied mutatis mutandis in Article 77-5(2) during the qualifying days in covered employment over the 24 months prior to the date of most recent job-leaving, he or she shall have worked as a short-term artist for at least 90 days during the qualifying days in covered employment.
(2) The qualifying days in covered employment referred to in paragraph (1)1 shall be calculated from the date of acquiring insured status in the business related to the eligibility for benefits to the date of job-leaving, and where a person has worked as a person falling under at least two categories from among employees, artists, and workers provided for in Article 77-6(1), the qualifying days in covered employment shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Amended on Jan. 5, 2021>
(3) The daily wage of an artist shall be the amount obtained by dividing the total remuneration reported pursuant to Article 16-10 of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance for the year preceding the last job-leaving date related to the recognition of eligibility for benefits by the total number of days of the period based on which the calculation is made; provided, where the daily wage of an artist (excluding an artist who is not subject to the standard remuneration pursuant to Article 3(1)2 of the Act on the Collection of Insurance Premiums for Employment Insurance and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance) is less than the artist's daily standard remuneration under Article 3 of that Act at the time of the job-leaving, the daily standard remuneration shall be the daily wage. <Amended on Jan. 5, 2021; Dec. 31, 2022>
(4) The daily amount of job-seeking benefits of an artist shall be the amount obtained by multiplying the daily wage under paragraph (3) by 60/100.
(5) The maximum amount of job-seeking benefits under paragraph (4) shall be the amount prescribed by Presidential Decree in consideration of the maximum amount of job-seeking benefits, etc. of the insured employee.
(6) An artist shall not be paid job-seeking benefits for seven days regarded as a waiting period beginning from the date of the report of unemployment under Article 42; provided, if any of the following reasons applies, a period of up to four weeks prescribed by Presidential Decree for each reason under the subparagraphs shall be considered the waiting period and the job-seeking benefits shall not be paid, and if at least two of the following reasons apply, the longest waiting period shall be considered the waiting period: <Amended on Dec. 31, 2022>
1. Where the job-leaving is due to the reasons under paragraph (1)3;
2. Where an application for recognition of eligibility for benefits has been filed pursuant to Article 43-2(1) and the reason for the job-leaving related to the last-lost insured status falls under the proviso of paragraph (2) of that Article.
(7) The insured period for calculating the specified number of days for which benefits are payable to an artist shall be the qualifying days in covered employment referred to in paragraph (2); provided, a period calculated as prescribed by Presidential Decree in consideration of the number of days of labor provision, etc. during the relevant contract period shall apply to short-term artists.
(8) Notwithstanding Article 47, the head of an employment security office shall, if job-seeking benefits are paid to an insured artist, reduce all or part of the relevant income accruing from employment, etc. during the period subject to recognition of unemployment and then pay it, as prescribed by Presidential Decree.[This Article Added on Jun. 9, 2020]