Korean Job Discussion Forums

[sojourner1]

But we're at school. Yes, it's a red July 17th on our 2008 office calendar and everyone in my school office are taking a second look at it as it was a holiday up until this year. It's been said before that becuase Korea is slowly adapting to a 5 day work week, holidays will be gradually dropped which started last year with Arbor day and then this year with Constitution day.

Everyone knows the government dropped today as a holiday and they are not happy about it since they have to work this Saturday too. Good thing they'll get to take 9 days off for Chuseok this year as they derserve some time off. I hope they close the school for a break when the students begin their vacation in 1 week.

That's too bad the number of holidays is decreasing. Next year, Korea will have even fewer with Chuseok and National Foundation day falling at the same time and Chuseok only being 2 days long.

[caniff]

Get to work. Plant a tree on your own time.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

[inthewild]

Korea should have more national holidays and not less. More of them should be on a Monday or a Friday. 뻔한 스토리

[mindmetoo]

Which ones did they drop? As far as I know the plans were to drop 2:

- tree planting day (went away a couple years ago)

- one of their four independence day (constitution day, the USA nuked japan day, the day off you got because of a mythical story that involves bestiality, and koreans died so other koreans could dump trash on the ground day).

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Ya-ta Boy]

We used to get Armed Forces Day and Sky Opening Day which were both at the beginning of October.

[SirFink]

[driftingfocus]

9 Days?! How do you figure that? Looks like 4 to me.

[jvalmer]

Most people will get the weekend plus 1 or 2 days off. The OP just lucked out, and I guess the OP's school has something planned that doesn't require the OP's attendance.