Korean annual leave calculator
Days of paid annual leave by length of service, with the first-year entitlement and seniority additions shown separately.
Article 60 grants 15 days after a year with at least 80% attendance, adds one day every two years from the third year, and stops at 25. Under a year, one day accrues per full month worked, up to 11. A 2017 amendment stopped those 11 days being deducted from the following year's 15, so someone just past their first anniversary can hold up to 26.
Service and attendance
What you enter is saved in this browser, so it is still here next time
From the start date to today; use decimals under a year.
One day per full month, up to 11.
Grants 15 days (Article 60(1)).
Days of leave
Available now
16days
First-year accrual
11days
Annual entitlement
16days
Seniority addition
1days
Next increase
5year
Since the 2017 amendment, first-year days are no longer deducted from the following year's 15, so just past one year the total can reach 26.
From the third year one day is added every two years, stopping at 25 — reached in the twenty-first year.
A direct calculation from Article 60. Employers operating on a fiscal-year basis may grant leave at different points.
After the first year: 15 days, plus one every two years
The whole-number part of the years of service is taken; from 3 years on, the whole part of (years − 1) ÷ 2 is added to 15. Years 3–4 give 16, 5–6 give 17, 9–10 give 19, 11–12 give 20, and the twenty-first year reaches 25, where it stops — entering 25 years still gives 25, not 27. The next-increase line names the year of service at which another day is added: year 3 for anyone under 3, then two years on from an odd year or one from an even year, and nothing once 25 is reached.
Under a year: one day per month of full attendance
Below one year the days equal the months with full attendance, capped at 11. Half a year with six full months is 6 days. In the year where the whole part is exactly 1, the under-a-year days and the first 15 can both still be held, so they are added — 11 months plus one year of service gives 26. From the second year the under-a-year days are no longer added, so 3 years and 11 months gives 16. The page shows the two parts separately so you can see which is which.
When attendance is under 80%
Even past a year, if attendance for that year was under 80%, only the months of full attendance count instead of the 15. Five years of service with under 80% and 8 full months gives 8 days and no seniority addition; the next-increase line shows the cap text, which here simply means no addition is coming. The page does not measure attendance; you choose it — periods such as parental leave or work-related injury count as attended, which a payslip cannot tell you.
What it does not do
Years of service are an input; they are not counted from a start date. Pro-rating for companies that grant leave by fiscal year, the money value of unused days, whether the encouragement-to-use procedure was followed, and works rules more generous than the law are not covered. What comes out is the statutory minimum; if your employer gives more, that figure prevails.
Common questions
QWhat if I leave exactly at one year?
The 15 days require one full year plus one more day of employment. Leaving on day 365 keeps only the 11 days accrued under a year. The Supreme Court confirmed this reading in 2021, and a single day separates 11 days from 26.
QWhen does it reach 25 days?
In the twenty-first year of service. One day is added every two years from 15, giving 16 in year three, 17 in year five, and 25 in year 21, after which it stops.
QIs unused leave paid out?
In principle unused days can be claimed as an allowance. That obligation disappears if the employer has properly followed the encouragement-to-use procedure in Article 61 — written notice of the remaining days and a request to schedule them.
QHow many days after 10 years of service?
19. The whole part of (10 − 1) ÷ 2 = 4.5, that is 4 days, is added to 15. Year 11 reaches 20, and one more day every two years brings it to 25 in year 21, where it stops. That assumes attendance of 80% or more.
QI am in my seventh month — how many days do I have?
One day per month of full attendance, so 7 if all seven months were complete. Enter a value under 1 for years of service, such as 0.5, and 7 for the months, and that is the result. A month with an absence drops out, and this part stops at 11.