South Korean work records must separate ordinary, overtime, night, and holiday hours. Everhour supports structured tracking for review.
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Use this page to think through a South Korea time-tracking setup before hours reach payroll, client billing, or management reports. The practical goal is a record that shows working days, total hours, ordinary hours, overtime, night work, and holiday work. Those categories matter because wage calculations use them differently.
South Korea's Labor Standards Act recordkeeping framework requires employers to keep core employment records, including records used for wage calculation, for three years. A useful tracking workflow keeps the source entries clear enough for later review, especially when a team works across client projects, late-night schedules, or public-holiday coverage.
Ordinary working hours in South Korea may not exceed 40 hours per week and 8 hours per day, excluding recess periods. Extended work is generally allowed only by agreement and is capped at 12 hours per week, which makes 52 total weekly hours the ordinary working-hours ceiling.
Time entries should label the reason hours fall outside ordinary time. Extended work, night work, and holiday work generally require at least a 50% wage premium. Night work covers work performed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. A single total-hours column hides the category that payroll needs to apply the correct treatment.
A Korean team should set up tracking around the points payroll and managers actually check. Each entry needs a person, date, project or work category, start and end context where useful, total working time, break handling, and a premium-pay label when the work is overtime, night work, or holiday work.
Breaks need visible treatment because workers are entitled to at least 30 minutes of recess for 4 hours of work and at least 1 hour of recess for 8 hours of work. A time record that mixes paid work time and recess time without distinction creates avoidable payroll review work.
A one-off weekly total is enough for a freelancer reconciling a single client invoice or an owner checking a small project. It stops being enough when several employees submit hours, managers approve corrections, and payroll needs retained records by person and period.
Everhour Timesheets fit that managed workflow by collecting weekly project hours and working hours for review. Managers can approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time, then keep approved entries locked for regular members. That gives payroll and billing a cleaner record than scattered messages, spreadsheets, and after-the-fact estimates.
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South Korean employers must keep wage records and employment-related records that support wage calculation. For time tracking, the record should support working days, total hours, overtime, night work, and holiday work. Core employment records used for wage calculation should be retained for three years under the Labor Standards Act recordkeeping framework.
A Korean timesheet should separate ordinary hours, extended work, night work, and holiday work. Extended work, night work, and holiday work generally require at least a 50% wage premium, so payroll needs the category, not only the total duration. Night work means work performed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Break treatment should be clear because recess periods are excluded from ordinary working hours. Workers are entitled to at least 30 minutes of recess for 4 hours of work and at least 1 hour of recess for 8 hours of work. A record that shows only a clock-in and clock-out span can overstate paid working time.
Managers should check the 40-hour ordinary weekly limit and the agreed extended-work cap. Ordinary working hours may not exceed 40 hours per week, excluding recess periods. Extended work is generally capped at 12 hours per week by agreement, creating a 52-hour ordinary working-hours ceiling for most weekly review.
Employee-identifiable time-tracking data is governed by South Korea's Personal Information Protection Act. The Personal Information Protection Commission is the national data-protection authority. Basic time entry is normal payroll data, but monitoring details, employee identifiers, and activity records still need privacy-aware handling under PIPA.
Everhour Timesheets collects weekly project hours and working hours by person, then lets managers approve, reject, or partially approve submitted time. Submitted and approved time can stay locked for regular members, which gives payroll and billing reviewers a clearer record before totals move into downstream work.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time into configurable reports with columns, grouping, filters, and date ranges. Managers can export reports in CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF when payroll, billing, or archive work needs a separate file for review.
Move from weekly totals to approved time records. Everhour Timesheets collects project and working hours, routes submissions for manager review, and locks approved entries for cleaner payroll and billing review.
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