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Annual paid leave, yeoncha, grants workers fifteen days of paid time off once they've attended at least eighty percent of their scheduled working days in a year, with additional days accruing for longer tenure over time, while first-year employees instead earn one day of leave for each month of perfect attendance. Unused leave that an employer doesn't allow a worker to take can be compensated as extra pay instead of simply forfeited.
It is distinct from unpaid leave of absence, which involves no salary at all, and from sick leave alone, which is typically a narrower category — yeoncha is a broader, salary-continuing entitlement not limited to illness.
Despite being a clear legal right, workplace pressure to avoid 'standing out' by taking time off can make yeoncha genuinely hard to use in practice, which is part of why Korea has seen ongoing public discussion about normalizing its actual use rather than letting it accumulate unused.
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