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fatpat
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Location: The bright lights of Namchang
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 Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: Is Wednesday a public holiday? |
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| My mate just asked me and my boyfriend if we want to go on a day trip on Wednesday for the holiday. Neither of us knew about this day being a holiday and we work at different places so I just thought i'd ask you lot? I'm sure it probably is a holiday, we are both used to a complete lack of communication from our bosses. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:31 am Post subject: |
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Yes.
It's the Korean version of Independence Day from the Japanese occupation. |
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fatpat
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Location: The bright lights of Namchang
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Niceuh! |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: |
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Damn. I hate when I have a holiday during my vacation. I think we should be able to save them up or something  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| Actually it isn't Independence Day. That comes on Aug. 15. Wednesday is Independence Movement Day, a memorial for when a bunch of patriots got together at the big bell downtown and signed a statement saying....something about how bad the Japanese are. Then the Japanese arrested tons of people. A bunch died. Sometime around 1919. |
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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: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Actually it isn't Independence Day. That comes on Aug. 15. Wednesday is Independence Movement Day, a memorial for when a bunch of patriots got together at the big bell downtown and signed a statement saying....something about how bad the Japanese are. Then the Japanese arrested tons of people. A bunch died. Sometime around 1919. |
Wasn't this when a Japanese guy (forcibly?) had sex with a Korean teenager girl and a bunch of Koreans at the school protested and grew into a "get out Japanese" demonstration, and mushroomed from there? |
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jinks
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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Why don't you take a trip to a stationery store and buy yourself a calendar or diary - all the holidays will be marked for you. Even if you can't read Korean you will know which days are holidays because the weekday holiday dates will be the same colour as a Sunday.
Enjoy the day off! |
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fatpat
Joined: 05 Oct 2005
Location: The bright lights of Namchang
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| Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:38 am Post subject: |
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Good idea but I won't bother as i'm leaving in 5 weeks to travel for 4 months before returning home to good old England. Hooray for the travelling and hooray for the food selection that awaits me in tesco when I get home.  Oh and hooray for seeing my dog, family and friends too of course! |
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Axl Rose
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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| what's the deal re a construction site right near my apartment (new officetel being built). i'm sick of their noise. will they be hammering away tomorrow waking me up or is this holiday such that that's unlikely? or does it depend? or has no-one got a clue? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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