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The Lump-Sum Refund (Return of National Pension Contributions) for foreigners in Korea

Eunsun Park
Eunsun Park
8 months ago

โœ… What is a Lump-Sum Refund?

A Lump-Sum Refund is a reimbursement of National Pension contributions made by a foreigner while working in Korea, if certain conditions are met. It is provided when the foreigner is no longer eligible to participate in the Korean pension system.


1. Eligibility for Lump-Sum Refund

You may apply for a lump-sum refund if any of the following apply:

1.1. Nationality

  • You are a citizen of a country that does not have a Social Security Agreement with Korea.
  • OR, you are from a country with a Social Security Agreement that permits refunds (some countries donโ€™t).

1.2. Residency

  • You have completely departed Korea, and
  • You are no longer eligible to contribute to the Korean National Pension.

1.3. Contribution Period

  • You contributed to the Korean pension system for less than 10 years and
  • You do not qualify for a monthly pension (old-age pension).

2. When to Apply

  • You can apply before or after leaving Korea.
  • If applying from overseas, you must apply within 5 years after your departure. After 5 years, the refund may expire.

3. Required Documents

DocumentNotes
Lump-Sum Refund Application FormProvided by National Pension Service (NPS)
Passport copyPhoto page and immigration stamps
Alien Registration Card (ARC) or Departure CertificateTo verify exit from Korea
Bank account informationYour overseas account, with SWIFT code, account number, and bank address
Social Security Agreement formIf applicable, for citizens of agreement countries

If applying through a representative, a Power of Attorney and their ID copy are also required.


4. How to Apply

You can apply via the following methods:

4.1. Online

4.2. In-person (while in Korea)

  • Visit a local NPS office near you

4.3. By mail

  • Send the required documents to the NPS head office or local branch

4.4. From abroad

  • Apply via a Korean Embassy/Consulate or through designated NPS email

5. Payment Method

  • The refund is converted into foreign currency and transferred to your overseas bank account.
  • Exchange rates are based on the day of payment.
  • Processing typically takes within 1 month, including overseas remittance.

6. Important Notes

  • This is not an early cancellation; itโ€™s only available if you meet the legal criteria.
  • Once you receive a lump-sum refund, the covered period is erased and no longer counts toward pension eligibility.
  • This is separate from severance pay or health insurance refunds.

โœ… ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ์ด๋ž€?

์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์ž…๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด 10๋…„ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์ด๊ณ , ๋” ์ด์ƒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์—ฐ๊ธˆ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋‚ฉ๋ถ€ํ•œ ๋ณดํ—˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜๊ธ‰ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์ œ๋„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


1. ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ ์‹ ์ฒญ ์ž๊ฒฉ (Eligibility)

๋‹ค์Œ ์š”๊ฑด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋ผ๋„ ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋ฉด ์‹ ์ฒญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  1. ๊ตญ์  ์š”๊ฑด
    • ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ณด์žฅํ˜‘์ •์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ
    • ๋˜๋Š” ํ˜‘์ •์ด ์žˆ์–ด๋„ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์„ ํ—ˆ์šฉํ•œ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ
  2. ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์š”๊ฑด
    • ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ์ถœ๊ตญํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜,
    • ๋” ์ด์ƒ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๊ฐ€์ž… ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์—†๋Š” ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ
  3. ๊ฐ€์ž…๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์š”๊ฑด
    • ๊ฐ€์ž…๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์ด 10๋…„ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์ด๊ณ , ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰์š”๊ฑด(๋…ธ๋ น์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๋“ฑ)์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ

2. ์‹ ์ฒญ ์‹œ๊ธฐ

  • ์ถœ๊ตญ ์ „ ๋˜๋Š” ์ถœ๊ตญ ํ›„ ์‹ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ์ถœ๊ตญ ํ›„ ์‹ ์ฒญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ์—๋Š” ์ถœ๊ตญ์ผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 5๋…„ ์ด๋‚ด ์‹ ์ฒญํ•ด์•ผ ํ•จ (5๋…„ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์‹œ ์†Œ๋ฉธ)

3. ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜ (Required Documents)

์„œ๋ฅ˜๋ช…๋น„๊ณ 
๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ ์ง€๊ธ‰์ฒญ๊ตฌ์„œ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ๊ณต๋‹จ ์–‘์‹
์—ฌ๊ถŒ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ์‚ฌ์ง„๋ฉด ๋ฐ ์ถœ์ž…๊ตญ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ™•์ธ์šฉ
์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋“ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ง์†Œํ™•์ธ์„œ์ถœ๊ตญ ์—ฌ๋ถ€ ์ฆ๋น™์šฉ
๋ณธ์ธ ๋ช…์˜ ํ•ด์™ธ์€ํ–‰ ๊ณ„์ขŒ์ •๋ณด๊ณ„์ขŒ๋ฒˆํ˜ธ, SWIFT์ฝ”๋“œ, ์€ํ–‰์ฃผ์†Œ ๋“ฑ ํฌํ•จ
์‚ฌํšŒ๋ณด์žฅํ˜‘์ • ํ•ด๋‹น ์‹œ ๊ด€๋ จ ์„œ๋ฅ˜ํ˜‘์ •์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฆ๋ช…์„œ๋ฅ˜ (ํ•„์š” ์‹œ)

โ€ป ๋ณธ์ธ ์ง์ ‘ ์‹ ์ฒญ์ด ์–ด๋ ค์šธ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์œ„์ž„์žฅ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€๋ฆฌ์ธ ์‹ ๋ถ„์ฆ ์‚ฌ๋ณธ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”


4. ์‹ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  1. ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ
  2. ์šฐํŽธ ์‹ ์ฒญ
    • ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ๊ณต๋‹จ ๋ณธ๋ถ€ ๋˜๋Š” ์ง€์‚ฌ์— ์„œ๋ฅ˜ ์†ก๋ถ€
  3. ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์‹ ์ฒญ
    • ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ฒด๋ฅ˜ ์ค‘์ด๋ฉด ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ๊ณต๋‹จ ์ง€์‚ฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ
  4. ํ•ด์™ธ ์‹ ์ฒญ
    • ์ถœ๊ตญ ํ›„์—๋Š” ํ˜„์ง€ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณต๋‹จ ์ง€์ • ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ๋กœ๋„ ์ ‘์ˆ˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ

5. ์ง€๊ธ‰ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

  • ์™ธํ™”๋กœ ํ™˜์ „ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด์™ธ ๊ณ„์ขŒ๋กœ ์†ก๊ธˆ
  • ํ™˜์œจ์€ ์ง€๊ธ‰์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์›ํ™” โ†’ ์™ธํ™” ๊ธฐ์ค€
  • ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ํ†ต์ƒ 1๊ฐœ์›” ์ด๋‚ด (ํ•ด์™ธ ์†ก๊ธˆ ํฌํ•จ)

6. ์œ ์˜์‚ฌํ•ญ

  • ์ค‘๋„ ํ•ด์ง€ ์•„๋‹˜: ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ์€ ์กฐ๊ฑด ์ถฉ์กฑ ์‹œ์—๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ
  • ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ˜ํ™˜์ผ์‹œ๊ธˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ นํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ฐ€์ž…๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์€ ์†Œ๋ฉธ๋จ (์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€)
  • ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์™ธ์— ํ‡ด์ง๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋ณดํ—˜ ํ™˜๊ธ‰์€ ๋ณ„๋„ ์‹ ์ฒญ ํ•„์š”



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