Deadline for paying retirement benefits after leaving
The most useful date to know on the way out, and the one most often replaced in conversation by 'next payroll run'. It also interacts badly with a departure flight: an employee leaving Korea a week after their last day can be gone before the statutory deadline even expires.
- Applies to
- Employers, on every departing employee entitled to retirement benefits
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-09-1814 days
Payable within 14 days of the date the entitlement arises. The period can be extended by agreement between the parties where there are special circumstances — an agreement, not a unilateral decision by the employer.
Act on the Guarantee of Workers’ Retirement Benefits
One reading so far. This becomes a history the first time the figure moves while we are watching — which is the part that cannot be reconstructed later.
Guides that depend on this figure
- Departure Guarantee Insurance for E-9 and H-2 Workers
- Korean Severance Pay: What You Are Actually Owed
When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.