workers' compensation programs, rehabilitation supports and welfare improvements.
WCI Benefit
What is WCI(Workers’s Compensation Insurance)?
WCI scheme is a social security scheme to compensate a worker exposed to a work-related accident for his/her consequent injury or disease on a timely, fair basis, and thereby, subsequently facilitate his/her rehabilitation and return to society.
- It’s an employer, not his/her worker as beneficiary, that shall register with the WCI scheme; any workplace with one full-time worker or more shall be mandatorily covered by WCI, regardless of its owner’s (i.e. employer’s) intents.
- The Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service (“K-COMWEL”) shall collect WCI premiums, in place of the Government, from employers whose workplace (or workplaces) is subject to WCI-mandatory coverage so that it may provide medical care services (including the attendant WCI benefits) for a worker with a work-related injury or disease, and thereby, facilitate his/her return to works.