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Zackback
Joined: 05 Nov 2010
Location: Kyungbuk
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 Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2011 4:13 pm Post subject: Official 2011 Korean holidays |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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millyfrend
Joined: 29 Apr 2010
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What is the best holiday in South Korea? Also do teachers have to work on Korean Holidays?
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| http://portalseven.com/calendar/Holidays_South_Korea.jsp |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| millyfrend wrote: |
What is the best holiday in South Korea? Also do teachers have to work on Korean Holidays?
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"Best" is a relative term.
Longest are Chusok (harvest) and Solal (lunar new year).
This year Solal is a 4-day weekend - Feb 3-6; Actual holiday dates are Feb. 3,4,5 (Thurs., Fri., Sat.)
Chusok falls midweek; Sept 13,14,15 (Tues., Wed., Thurs.)
Public school teachers get ALL those days off. Those that fall on a weekend are NOT moved to a weekday and you don't get an extra day off in lieu.
Some (many) hakwans observe the "Red days" but some (notably CDI) do NOT and their teachers DO work on weekends and "Red days".
Korean RED Dates for 2011 are:
January 1 New Years Day
February 3 - 5, Korean New Year
March 1, March 1st Movement
May 1, Labour Day
May 5, Childrens Day
May 10, Buddha's Birthday
June 6, Memorial Day
August 15, Liberation Day
September 13-15, Harvest Festival
October 3, National Foundation Day
December 25, Christmas Day
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banjois
Joined: 14 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:41 am Post subject: |
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| What's the deal with Seoulnal this year? It's marked as Feb 2-4 on my school's calendar, and I've seen both that and Feb 3-5 in various places.... |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| What's the deal with Seoulnal this year? It's marked as Feb 2-4 on my school's calendar, and I've seen both that and Feb 3-5 in various places.... |
The school is taking an extra day off (1 day early). 3-5 is Thurs-Sat.
2-4 is Wed - Fri and then you get the weekend (so a 5 day break instead of 4).
Lucky you.
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austinmc86
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| I think Lunar New Year starts on the 2nd of Feb. That is what my calendar says. My co-teachers also said the 2nd. |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:03 am Post subject: |
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Wow... Ttompatz is wrong on this one 
The New Year Day is Thursday the 3rd. That means the national days off are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
It's on every site I check. |
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WadRUG'naDoo
Joined: 15 Jun 2010
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Yup. 2nd to the 4th. That's what it is in China and it's the same thing except that it sucks in Korea. I get from the 31st to the 11th off. 12 days in a row. Got 7 days in a row for National Day back in October. And none of it counts as my contractual vacation. Business is closed does not mean employee has a forced vacation. The crap they pull in Korea for this is pitiful. At least compared to where I work.
ttompatz, wasn't Labor Day taken away as a national holiday a few years back? I think so. Wrong on two counts. Tsk, tsk.  |
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interestedinhanguk
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:09 am Post subject: |
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| WadRUG'naDoo wrote: |
Yup. 2nd to the 4th. That's what it is in China and it's the same thing except that it sucks in Korea. I get from the 31st to the 11th off. 12 days in a row. Got 7 days in a row for National Day back in October. And none of it counts as my contractual vacation. Business is closed does not mean employee has a forced vacation. The crap they pull in Korea for this is pitiful. At least compared to where I work.
ttompatz, wasn't Labor Day taken away as a national holiday a few years back? I think so. Wrong on two counts. Tsk, tsk. |
Wrong on 3 counts
Chuseok is September 11-13 (Sunday-Tuesday). |
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daisydew
Joined: 07 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 7:11 am Post subject: school year dates? |
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| thanks for these vacation dates. Can anyone tell me what the school year dates are for this year? i have a friend getting married in thailand in the middle of july and was wondering if that would be during our summer vacation. not sure if they have spring and fall breaks like we do in the u.s. also, is everyone forced to work the summer/winter month long camps? when are those usually? |
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NYC_Gal 2.0
Joined: 10 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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Online it said 3-5, but on my bank calendar, the 2-4 are marked in red. I checked with my school and those are the days.
I had originally planned on using a vacation day on the 2nd, but now I get an extra day. Wahoo! |
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