Reporting Your Employer as a Foreign Worker
The fear is not the procedure. It is what happens to your status while you use it — and one protection changed in November 2025.
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Work & Employment
Contracts, payroll, working hours, the four major insurances, and changing jobs as a foreign worker in Korea.
Unpaid Wages and Unfair Dismissal: Two Routes
They go to different bodies on different clocks. Working the wage claim first is how people lose the dismissal remedy without ever being told.
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When Your Old Employer Will Not Release You
A release letter is evidence that a job ended, not a veto over your next one. What to do when the previous company simply refuses to sign.
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Changing Employers on a Korean Work Visa
The date that causes trouble is not your last day. It is your first day at the new place, and whether immigration had already said yes.
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E-7-4: The Route From E-9 to Long-Term Status
The one path out of the four-year-ten-month cycle. It is rationed at 33,000 a year, scored on points, and it is not a promotion.
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E-9 vs E-7: What Actually Separates Them
Not wages, and not skill level. The real difference is who controls the employment relationship, and how quickly losing a job becomes a visa problem.
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Losing Your Job on a Korean Work Visa
The 15 days everyone cites is your employer’s reporting duty, not your grace period. And D-10 is a status you qualify for, not one you fall back to.
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Unemployment Benefit in Korea as a Foreign Worker
Paying the 0.9% does not mean you were covered. On most work statuses coverage starts the day after you apply — and nothing is backdated.
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Which Korean Social Insurances You Are Actually In
Four schemes, four different tests for a foreign employee. Which is why your deductions can differ from a colleague’s and both payslips be right.
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Korea’s Four Social Insurances, From Your Side
Around 9.7% of pay, across four schemes that do not share a calculation base — and one of them never costs you a won.
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Overtime, Night and Holiday Pay: The Stacking Rules
Extended work at night is 200%, not 150%. Holiday work has two tiers of its own. And a comprehensive wage clause removes none of it.
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The 52-Hour Week in Korea, and What It Does Not Buy
Paying the overtime premium does not purchase extra hours. The cap and the pay duty are separate regulations, and only one of them is criminal.
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When Unused Leave Stops Being Owed to You
Korea’s use-promotion procedure removes an employer’s duty to pay for unused leave — if every step is done. Most of the time not every step is done.
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Annual Leave in Korea: How It Actually Accrues
Two gates before any entitlement exists, eleven first-year days that all expire on the same date, and a payout that is not always eight hours a day.
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Departure Guarantee Insurance for E-9 and H-2 Workers
It is not severance and it is not a pension. It accrues on a different wage base, which is why the payout is often smaller than what you are owed.
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Korean Severance Pay: What You Are Actually Owed
Not one month per year. The divisor is calendar days, the floor is ordinary wage, and on a DC plan the last three months barely matter at all.
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Korea’s Minimum Wage and the 209-Hour Month
The hourly rate is ₩10,320. The lawful monthly minimum is ₩2,156,880 — and the gap between those two numbers is a paid holiday you never work.
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Your Korean Employment Contract: What to Check
Signed is not delivered, probation is not capped at three months, and two years does not always mean permanent. The clauses that decide your money.
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Reading Your Korean Payslip
Two colleagues on the same salary can have different deductions, legally. The reason is in the visa column, not the payroll system.
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Hiring Your First Employee in Korea
Contract, four social insurances, the 2026 minimum wage and what changes at five staff — what a ₩3,000,000 salary actually costs an employer here.
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Registering an Employee for Korea’s Four Insurances
Four insurances, four laws, two deadlines: health insurance within 14 days, the other three by the 15th of the next month. What a new employer files.
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