This Act shall apply to every business or workplace that employs workers (hereinafter referred to as "business"): Provided, That this Act shall not apply to business prescribed by Presidential Decree in consideration of their risk rates, sizes, places, etc.

(1) A person entitled to a survivors' compensation annuity (hereinafter referred to as "persons entitled to a survivors' compensation annuity") shall be the spouse of the relevant worker and any of the following survivors whose livelihood had been supported by such worker as at the time of the worker's death (excluding those who were not Korean nationals and were living in foreign countries as at the time of the worker’s death). In such cases, the criteria for determining survivors whose livelihood had been supported by the worker shall be prescribed by Presidential Decree: <Amended by Act No. 10339, Jun. 4, 2010; Act No. 11569, Dec. 18, 2012>

1. Parents or grandparents respectively aged at least 60 years;

2. Children or grandchildren respectively aged below 19 years;

3. Siblings aged below 19 years or 60 years at least;

4. Any person who is a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, or sibling who does not fall under any of subparagraphs 1 through 3 and who suffers from disability falling under a disability grade at least as high as that prescribed by Ordinance of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, among the disabled provided for in Article 2 of the Act on Welfare of Persons with Disabilities.

(2) In applying the provisions of paragraph (1), if a child who was a fetus as at the time of the worker's death is born, the child shall be deemed, at birth and thereafter, a survivor whose livelihood had been supported by such worker as at the time of his/her death.

(3) The order of priority for entitlement to a survivors' compensation annuity, of persons entitled to the survivors' compensation annuity, shall be in accordance with the following order: Spouse, children, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings.