Joint business owners allowed to engage in secondary employment, with annual income capped at 20 million won.

Starting as early as March next year, to expand the economic activities of female farmers, part-time work will be allowed for co-managing farmers with an annual income limit of 20 million won. The co-managing farmer system was introduced in 2016 to recognize female farmers who are spouses of managing farmers as managing entities and to guarantee their institutional status. When registered as a co-managing farmer, one becomes eligible for various policies such as farmer's allowance, welfare vouchers, rural women's entrepreneurship support programs, rural national pension and health insurance, and maternity benefits for those not enrolled in employment insurance. However, while managing farmers are recognized as farmers even if they engage in part-time work, co-managing farmers face cancellation of their managing entity registration if they temporarily take a job and enroll in the four major insurances, which has been criticized as not aligning with rural realities. In the future, ...