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Knight Errant
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
Location: Here and There
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 Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:01 am Post subject: Only 2 NATIONAL holidays this Year!!! |
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Anyone else notice this?
We get the 26th and 27th off this month for the Lunar New Year holidays.
After that, Korea will only have 2 more National Holidays for the remainder of the year!!
That means, no 14 paid National Holidays this year for us, which we usually had throughout the past 4 years or so.
First, the crappy exchange rates and salaries. Now, more work and less days off! Damn, it's getting tougher and tougher here.
I wonder what those hagwon contracts will now say regarding holidays. |
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Straphanger
Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Location: Chilgok, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: Re: Only 2 NATIONAL holidays this Year!!! |
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| Knight Errant wrote: |
| I wonder what those hagwon contracts will now say regarding holidays. |
Mine says nothing. My boss doesn't get the day off, why should I?
Did you make a commitment to a job, or just to a vacation? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:50 am Post subject: |
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at least Christmas and New Year's Day each fall on a Friday in 2009, ensuring two 3-day weekends! ... in 2010 they each fall on a weekend!!! 
and also in 2010 two of the three Asian New Year days off are on the weekend
the only bright spot is that Chuseok in '10 is on Tues-Wed-Thurs, so I'll make *beep* sure I don't sign any contract before I get in writing (and by verbal assent, which I'll remind them of) the Monday and Friday off of that week for a 9-day break! |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
at least Christmas and New Year's Day each fall on a Friday in 2009, ensuring two 3-day weekends! ... in 2010 they each fall on a weekend!!!
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Crap, I'm considering a job that has Fridays off so I would end up with NO extra holidays. Guess I couldn't complain too much if I take that job anyway. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Send you thanks to Roh for canelling two of the public holidays last year...he really helped out the average Korean.  |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: Re: Only 2 NATIONAL holidays this Year!!! |
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| Knight Errant wrote: |
Anyone else notice this?
We get the 26th and 27th off this month for the Lunar New Year holidays.
After that, Korea will only have 2 more National Holidays for the remainder of the year!!
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No there are three. May 5th (Tuesday) October 2nd (Friday) and December 25 (Friday) |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Typhoon wrote: |
| Send you thanks to Roh for canelling two of the public holidays last year...he really helped out the average Korean. |
Lots of Koreans work on Saturdays...four of those public holidays fall on a Saturday. And if I remember rightly that was under pressure from business associations. |
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Davew125
Joined: 11 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| a friend of mine who worked in japan for many years said that when the holidays fell on weekends there they got the Monday off. No chance of that happening here i guess... |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| Typhoon wrote: |
| Send you thanks to Roh for canelling two of the public holidays last year...he really helped out the average Korean. |
Lots of Koreans work on Saturdays...four of those public holidays fall on a Saturday. And if I remember rightly that was under pressure from business associations. |
Who Roh caved into and chose the only two holidays that couldn't be shared by North Korea. Interesting isn't it. Roh sure wasn't dumb, but he was a sneaky SOB. |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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This is Korea's strategy against the global economic depression. The top Korean management had a meeting with the Government and they decided the best way to improve the economy would be working harder and longer than before.
Korea; the land of working long hours and the logical decision making. |
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sarbonn
Joined: 14 Oct 2008
Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Not all of us work regular weekends, so we get a bunch of the holidays off. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
at least Christmas and New Year's Day each fall on a Friday in 2009, ensuring two 3-day weekends! ... in 2010 they each fall on a weekend!!!
My calendar says that New Year's Day falls on a Friday in 2010...in 2009 it fell on a Thursday didn't it?
and also in 2010 two of the three Asian New Year days off are on the weekend
the only bright spot is that Chuseok in '10 is on Tues-Wed-Thurs, so I'll make *beep* sure I don't sign any contract before I get in writing (and by verbal assent, which I'll remind them of) the Monday and Friday off of that week for a 9-day break! |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| THis only applies to hagwon employees....us PS folks get plenty of holidays off or days off for no reason(testing, field trip, etc.) |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:15 am Post subject: |
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| Using mainly lunar based holidays allows the holidays to rotate. Some years are better than others. Thats how the dice roll in Korea. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:37 am Post subject: |
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| sojusucks wrote: |
| Using mainly lunar based holidays allows the holidays to rotate. Some years are better than others. Thats how the dice roll in Korea. |
That's so nice of the moon to rotate the holidays for us. Thanks moon. |
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