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Annual leave calculator

See when your Korean paid annual leave arises and expires, by start date or calendar year, including part-time hours and the settlement on leaving.

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Employment

Counts the leave that has arisen up to this day.

Leave year

Workplace size (regular workers)

The 15 days and extra days arise only if the workplace had 5 or more workers for the whole year before (Enforcement Decree art. 7-2(3)). Leave blank if it always had 5 or more.

No annual leave under 15 hours a week on a 4-week average (Labor Standards Act art. 18(3)).

Years with attendance under 80% or days left out

Work-injury leave, maternity leave, parental leave and reduced hours for childcare or pregnancy count as attendance (art. 60(6)). Add only years with other absences or leave.

Available once leave for a full year of service has arisen.

Result

Enter the start date and the date to check.

Leave by years of service

Years of serviceDaysYears of serviceDays
115 days1220 days
215 days1321 days
316 days1421 days
416 days1522 days
517 days1622 days
617 days1723 days
718 days1823 days
818 days1924 days
919 days2024 days
1019 days21 or more25 days
1120 days

How it is calculated

  • With 80% attendance over a year you get 15 days. In the first year, or with under 80% attendance, you get 1 day for each month of full attendance (Labor Standards Act art. 60(1)(2)). Since 29 May 2018 the first-year monthly days are no longer taken off the 15 days.
  • From 3 years, 1 day is added for every 2 years beyond the first, up to 25 days a year (art. 60(4)).
  • Leave arises the day after a month or a year is completed, and only if you are still employed that day (Supreme Court 2021da227100; Ministry guidance of 15 December 2021).
  • Leave not used within a year expires; first-year monthly leave must be used before the first anniversary (art. 60(7)). Pay for expired leave can be claimed from the next day, unless the employer lawfully urged you to use it (art. 61). Leave you could not use because of the employer does not expire.
  • Calendar-year basis: on 1 January after joining you get a share for the first year. The Ministry describes it only as proportional to service in the year you joined; this tool uses 15 × days employed that year ÷ 365 (or the days in that year). After that, each 1 January counts the full years of service on that day.
  • Workplaces with 4 or fewer workers and workers under 15 hours a week get no annual leave (Enforcement Decree, Table 1; art. 18(3)).

This is a guide, not legal advice.

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