Public-holiday planning
- Use the planner to place annual leave immediately before or after public holidays and weekends; then confirm the exact holiday calendar and entitlement with your employer before booking.
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🇰🇷South Korea
The Labour Standards Act grants 15 days after a year with at least 80% attendance. From three years of continuous service, additional days are added for each two further years, capped at 25.
Statutory paid annual leave15 days after a full year with at least 80% attendance; increases with serviceAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent15 days at year 1; 17 at 5 years; 19 at 10 yearsNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedSouth Korea — National Law Information Center
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Legal basis and comparison method
The Labour Standards Act grants 15 days after a year with at least 80% attendance. From three years of continuous service, additional days are added for each two further years, capped at 25.
Equivalent by service length
| 1st year / first full entitlement | 15 days |
| 2 years | 15 days |
| 5 years | 17 days |
| 10 years | 19 days |
| 20+ years | 24 days |
Simplified comparison points. Actual legal thresholds may use anniversaries, cumulative service, education credits or other rules.
Regional and calendar caveats
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
Official employment source: South Korea — National Law Information Center. Open official guidance ↗
This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
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The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
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