Job-seeking benefit: insured days required before leaving
Read as six months of employment, which it is not. Insured days count days that were the basis for remuneration plus paid weekly holidays, and exclude unpaid days — so a part-time or irregular schedule can leave someone short after well over six months on the payroll. For a foreign employee there is a second gate that is not in the Employment Insurance Act at all: being lawfully in Korea, on a status permitting work, while unemployed.
- Applies to
- Employment insurance subscribers claiming job-seeking benefit
- Review cadence
- Checked once a year
What we have recorded
- 2026-09-21180 days
At least 180 insured days in aggregate during the 18 months before leaving, together with the other statutory conditions including the reason for leaving and active job-seeking. Insured days are not calendar days of employment.
Employment Insurance Act
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
- Unemployment Benefit in Korea as a Foreign Worker
- Which Korean Social Insurances You Are Actually In
When this figure moves, every guide above needs the same edit. That is why it is tracked here rather than copied into each one.