How to get your South Korea pension statement

국민연금 가입내역

Known in English as the National Pension contribution record. Look for this name on the site — it may not be translated.

• Your Korean resident registration number, or the foreigner registration number you held while working in Korea.
• Your Korean employers and dates.
• Your nationality — for foreign workers, whether you can take a lump-sum refund depends on whether your country gives Koreans the same treatment.

1. 1
   Open the NPS English site

   NPS runs the national pension and publishes a full English service for foreign contributors.

   Open this page ↗
2. 2
   Request your contribution record

   It shows the months you contributed and the reported income behind them. Korea's minimum qualifying period is 10 years for an old-age pension.
3. 3
   Check the reciprocity rule if you are a foreign national

   A lump-sum refund on departure is available to nationals of countries that offer Korean workers equivalent treatment, or where a totalisation agreement provides for it. Otherwise contributions stay in the system until pension age.
4. 4
   Check totalisation if you fall short of 10 years

   Korea has agreements with more than 40 countries, allowing foreign periods to count toward the qualifying period.
5. 5
   Save the record

   NPS pays pensions abroad by international remittance and does not require you to live in Korea, so a Korean entitlement is worth keeping track of even from far away.

You no longer have Korean online authentication

NPS accepts applications and enquiries by post from abroad, and claims can be filed through the social insurance authority of your country of residence where an agreement exists.

You are unsure whether your nationality qualifies for a refund

Ask NPS directly rather than relying on general advice: the list is specific, and it is the sort of question their English service exists to answer.

You worked in Korea briefly and assume nothing accrued

Contributions are recorded from the first month. Even below the 10-year threshold, the months may count via totalisation or qualify for a refund.

Whether the simplified online authentication (bank certificate, Naver, KakaoTalk) works from outside Korea.

Upload the statement to your vault and we'll read the figures out of it — balances, benefits, vesting and retirement ages — and tell you what changed since your last one.