KCOMWEL was established to contribute to the protection of workers through timely & fairly compensating for work -related accidents, installing & operating insurance facilities to promote injured workers’ rehabilitation and return-to-society, and implementing services to prevent work-related accidents and enhance workers’ welfare.
Key services
| Service category |
Scope of services |
| Registration for WCI coverage |
- Addressing the occurrence/adjustment/termination of eligibility for WCI coverage
- Employment information management
- Managing workers engaging in special business types
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| WCI benefits |
- Medical care benefits
- Permanent disability benefits & nursing care benefits
- Survivor’s benefits & funeral expenses
- Loan services against medical care benefits
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| Support programs for workers |
- Loan services for workers with wages in arrears, etc.
- Supports for workers’ cultural & leisure activities
- Supports for start-ups
- Operating childcare centers called “Children’s House”
- Credit guarantee services
- Wage claim guarantee
- Welfare services for workers injured due to a work-related accident
- Advanced welfare services for workplaces
- Supports for installing facilities to promote the employment of female workers
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| WCI medical services |
- Operating WC hospitals to provide medical treatments for workers injured due to a work-related accident (including rehabilitation services)
- Carrying out researches on rehabilitation engineering, occupational lung diseases, etc. through WC hospitals
- Providing medical services for workers with lung diseases
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| Supports for rehabilitation |
- Rehabilitation counseling
- Sequela care
- Occupation rehabilitation
- Social & psychological rehabilitation
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