When may the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service send staff into a workplace to question people and examine documents, and what limits does the provision place on that entry?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file, read the request for an insurance-benefit decision or a review application, which shows the purpose for which confirmation was considered necessary, and any note recording the entry, the staff member's badge being shown to the persons concerned, and the questions asked or documents examined.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading treats the power as tied to its stated purposes: where the Corporation considers confirmation necessary for deciding on insurance benefits or for the hearing and determination of a review application, it may send a subordinate employee into the office or workplace of a business covered by the Act, and into the office of an insurance-service agent or a platform operator of the kind the provision names, to have persons concerned questioned and related documents examined.
Another reading notes what the provision does not reach: entry is not open for any general purpose, and the power runs only to offices and workplaces within the classes it lists, while the requirement that the employee carry and show a badge identifying the authority is a separate condition on the exercise of that entry.
Your judgment
If the file records an entry but not the benefit or review matter that prompted it, what could show that the confirmation was considered necessary for that purpose?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to widen the places or purposes covered, or if a decision explains how far the scope of this entry power extends.