The Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service (Chairman Park Jong-gil) held a ‘Durunuri and Blue Seed Food Truck’ support event in the Seoul Digital National Industrial Complex in Guro-gu, Seoul, to mark the end of the year. The event aimed to provide warm coffee and snacks to small business owners, workers, and freelancers who are struggling with sluggish domestic demand and rising prices, offering comfort and support.
At the event, booths were set up to provide consultations on the Durunuri social insurance premium support system and the Blue Seed retirement pension for small businesses, making it easy for attendees to receive necessary information and sign up on the spot. The Durunuri social insurance premium support project supports 80% of employment insurance and national pension premiums for workers with an average monthly salary of less than 2.7 million won at workplaces with fewer than 10 employees.
This year alone, premiums have been supported for 480,000 workplaces and 1.6 million workers, providing substantial help to small businesses and workers who hesitated to join due to premium burdens, significantly contributing to alleviating the blind spots in social insurance. Additionally, Blue Seed is the only fund-type retirement pension system in Korea directly operated by the Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service, targeting workers at small businesses with fewer than 30 employees.
As of October this year, the third year since the system’s introduction, it has seen rapid growth with 30,000 workplaces, 140,000 workers enrolled, and 1.3 trillion won in accumulated funds, establishing itself as a reliable partner for the retirement of small business workers. Chairman Park Jong-gil visited the site and said, “We organized this event to sincerely comfort and support small business owners and workers who have worked hard throughout the year. The service will continue to strive to eliminate blind spots in employment and industrial accident insurance and ensure retirement income for workers, creating a labor-respecting society where everyone can work happily.”