โ 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 donโt).
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
| Document | Notes |
|---|---|
| Lump-Sum Refund Application Form | Provided by National Pension Service (NPS) |
| Passport copy | Photo page and immigration stamps |
| Alien Registration Card (ARC) or Departure Certificate | To verify exit from Korea |
| Bank account information | Your overseas account, with SWIFT code, account number, and bank address |
| Social Security Agreement form | If 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
- Visit the National Pension Service website
- Use the Foreigners' Lump-Sum Refund section
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; itโs 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.
โ ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ์ด๋?
์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด 10๋ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ด๊ณ , ๋ ์ด์ ํ๊ตญ์์ ์ฐ๊ธ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๋ฉ๋ถํ ๋ณดํ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ผ์๊ธ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ธํด ์ฃผ๋ ์ ๋์ ๋๋ค.
1. ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ ์ ์ฒญ ์๊ฒฉ (Eligibility)
๋ค์ ์๊ฑด ์ค ํ๋๋ผ๋ ํด๋นํ๋ฉด ์ ์ฒญํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค:
- ๊ตญ์ ์๊ฑด
- ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ฌํ๋ณด์ฅํ์ ์ด ์๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ
- ๋๋ ํ์ ์ด ์์ด๋ ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ ์๊ธ์ ํ์ฉํ ๊ตญ๊ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ
- ์ฒด๋ฅ ์๊ฑด
- ํ๊ตญ์ ์์ ํ ์ถ๊ตญํ๊ฑฐ๋,
- ๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ฒฉ์ด ์๋ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ
- ๊ฐ์
๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์๊ฑด
- ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ด 10๋ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ด๊ณ , ์ฐ๊ธ ์๊ธ์๊ฑด(๋ ธ๋ น์ฐ๊ธ ๋ฑ)์ ํด๋นํ์ง ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ
2. ์ ์ฒญ ์๊ธฐ
- ์ถ๊ตญ ์ ๋๋ ์ถ๊ตญ ํ ์ ์ฒญ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- ์ถ๊ตญ ํ ์ ์ฒญํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ์ถ๊ตญ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ 5๋ ์ด๋ด ์ ์ฒญํด์ผ ํจ (5๋ ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ ์๋ฉธ)
3. ์ ์ถ์๋ฅ (Required Documents)
| ์๋ฅ๋ช | ๋น๊ณ |
|---|---|
| ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ ์ง๊ธ์ฒญ๊ตฌ์ | ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ๊ณต๋จ ์์ |
| ์ฌ๊ถ ์ฌ๋ณธ | ์ฌ์ง๋ฉด ๋ฐ ์ถ์ ๊ตญ๊ธฐ๋ก ํ์ธ์ฉ |
| ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ ์ฌ๋ณธ ๋๋ ๋ง์ํ์ธ์ | ์ถ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋ถ ์ฆ๋น์ฉ |
| ๋ณธ์ธ ๋ช ์ ํด์ธ์ํ ๊ณ์ข์ ๋ณด | ๊ณ์ข๋ฒํธ, SWIFT์ฝ๋, ์ํ์ฃผ์ ๋ฑ ํฌํจ |
| ์ฌํ๋ณด์ฅํ์ ํด๋น ์ ๊ด๋ จ ์๋ฅ | ํ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฆ๋ช ์๋ฅ (ํ์ ์) |
โป ๋ณธ์ธ ์ง์ ์ ์ฒญ์ด ์ด๋ ค์ธ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์์์ฅ ๋ฐ ๋๋ฆฌ์ธ ์ ๋ถ์ฆ ์ฌ๋ณธ ์ถ๊ฐ ํ์
4. ์ ์ฒญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
- ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ ์ฒญ
- ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ๊ณต๋จ ํํ์ด์ง
- ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ ์ฉ ํ์ด์ง ๋๋ โ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ ์ ์ฒญโ ๋ฉ๋ด ์ด์ฉ
- ์ฐํธ ์ ์ฒญ
- ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ๊ณต๋จ ๋ณธ๋ถ ๋๋ ์ง์ฌ์ ์๋ฅ ์ก๋ถ
- ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ์ ์ฒญ
- ๊ตญ๋ด ์ฒด๋ฅ ์ค์ด๋ฉด ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ๊ณต๋จ ์ง์ฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ
- ํด์ธ ์ ์ฒญ
- ์ถ๊ตญ ํ์๋ ํ์ง ๋์ฌ๊ด ๋๋ ๊ณต๋จ ์ง์ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ
5. ์ง๊ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
- ์ธํ๋ก ํ์ ํ์ฌ ํด์ธ ๊ณ์ข๋ก ์ก๊ธ
- ํ์จ์ ์ง๊ธ์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ํ โ ์ธํ ๊ธฐ์ค
- ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ํต์ 1๊ฐ์ ์ด๋ด (ํด์ธ ์ก๊ธ ํฌํจ)
6. ์ ์์ฌํญ
- ์ค๋ ํด์ง ์๋: ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ์ ์กฐ๊ฑด ์ถฉ์กฑ ์์๋ง ๊ฐ๋ฅ
- ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐํ์ผ์๊ธ์ ์๋ นํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ํด๋น ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฉธ๋จ (์ฐ๊ธ ์๊ธ ๋ถ๊ฐ)
- ๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ฐ๊ธ ์ธ์ ํด์ง๊ธ์ด๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๋ณดํ ํ๊ธ์ ๋ณ๋ ์ ์ฒญ ํ์