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dairyairy
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 Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:37 am Post subject: 2014: Weekend holidays will be observed during the week |
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http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2976756&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
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Starting next year, civil servants will get an extra day off if national holidays such as the three-day Lunar New Year or Chuseok holidays fall on a Sunday, the government announced yesterday.
Private companies are expected to follow suit.
The Ministry of Security and Public Administration said yesterday it will revise a law governing holidays for government workers that will enable them to get an extra day off.
Basically, civil servants will be compensated if a national holiday falls on a Sunday, which they would have had off anyway.
Under the regulation, public servants will receive an extra day off for the three-day Chuseok holiday next year because the first day falls on Sunday Sept. 7. The ministry said civil service will get Sept. 10 off instead, extending the Chuseok holiday.
“As a large number of people flock to their hometowns during the two biggest holidays of the year, Chuseok and Lunar New Year, we decided to give workers a day off following a holiday that falls on a Sunday,” said Kim Jang-ho, an official at the Public Administration Ministry.
For Children’s Day, which falls on May 5, public workers will get a day off if it falls on either a Saturday or a Sunday.
“We expect public workers to have a 1.1 day increase on average in national holidays thanks to the revision,” said the ministry in a statement released yesterday.
National Assembly members first brought up the issue last April and tried to submit a revision to cover workers in both the public and private sector.
But the Public Administration Ministry decided to apply the law to civil servants first, believing that private companies would eventually follow suit.
“We expect private companies to introduce the same holiday substitution measure [next year],” said Kim of the Public Administration Ministry.
Response to the idea was mixed. “There are 16 national holidays in Korea, more than the OECD’s average of 11.3 days,” said Korea Economic Institute Researcher Byun Yang-gyu, yesterday, at a seminar on holidays hosted by the Federation of Korean Industries.
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| But the Public Administration Ministry decided to apply the law to civil servants first, believing that private companies would eventually follow suit. |
Great news for those who work in a public school.
But if they believe that most hakwons are going to follow suit voluntarily...I would say they have another think coming. |
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modernseoul
Joined: 11 Sep 2011
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
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| But the Public Administration Ministry decided to apply the law to civil servants first, believing that private companies would eventually follow suit. |
Great news for those who work in a public school.
But if they believe that most hakwons are going to follow suit voluntarily...I would say they have another think coming. |
Completely agree if a Hagwon doesn't have to close then it won't. Take May 1st for example, many companies and schools are closed but I've never heard of a Hagwon closing. Some even open on national holidays  |
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wishfullthinkng
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| this truly made my day because a lot of holidays fall on weekends next year. |
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Lucas
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Starting next year, civil servants will get an extra day off if national holidays such as the three-day Lunar New Year or Chuseok holidays fall on a Sunday, the government announced yesterday.
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But will it be in the EPIK contract.......
I forsee some NET's deskwarming. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| They'll find some way to make up the time. Of particular annoyance is the phasing out of Saturday school, which in turn has resulted in longer working hours during the week. As an EPIK teacher, we don't work Saturdays to begin with, so instead we just see an increase in hours. Summer vacation has also shrunk significantly over the past few years. My school started up again on August 19th this year. A mere three years ago, school didn't start again until the beginning of September. |
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faeriehazel
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| The hakwons will never follow suit. The only holidays I ever got off at a hakwon were Lunar New Year's, Chusok, Christmas, and New Year's. One hakwon gave us Children's Day off as well. |
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jvalmer
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Summer vacation has also shrunk significantly over the past few years. My school started up again on August 19th this year. A mere three years ago, school didn't start again until the beginning of September. |
You are wrong, a mere 3 years ago it was the last week of August for middle schools and high schools a week earlier, I remember. And elementary schools generally re-started in September. But everything has been pushed ahead a week. But we do longer hours because of the absent Saturdays. But they still have 'club' activities on Saturdays. |
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tob55
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| It will be nice for the people working in uni positions since all of the public holidays are usually followed on the uni schedule, at least at the national universities. |
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Underwaterbob
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| You are wrong, a mere 3 years ago it was the last week of August for middle schools and high schools a week earlier, I remember. And elementary schools generally re-started in September. But everything has been pushed ahead a week. But we do longer hours because of the absent Saturdays. But they still have 'club' activities on Saturdays. |
Eh? Maybe things are different out in the boonies where I am, but I distinctly remember (middle) school not starting up again until early September... |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
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| You are wrong, a mere 3 years ago it was the last week of August for middle schools and high schools a week earlier, I remember. And elementary schools generally re-started in September. But everything has been pushed ahead a week. But we do longer hours because of the absent Saturdays. But they still have 'club' activities on Saturdays. |
Eh? Maybe things are different out in the boonies where I am, but I distinctly remember (middle) school not starting up again until early September... |
Perhaps your school started the break late? Like the last week of July? The standard is 4 weeks in summer, and 6/7 weeks in the winter. |
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Underwaterbob
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Perhaps your school started the break late? Like the last week of July? The standard is 4 weeks in summer, and 6/7 weeks in the winter. |
Now that I think real hard about it, some renovations might have had something to do with it... |
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goreality
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| The way the article is written and from other articles I have read, I believe at this time it is only for Lunar New Years, Chuseok, and Children's Day. |
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chickenpie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2013 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Only for Sundays not Saturdays, I suppose it's a step in the right direction. |
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dairyairy
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| Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2013 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Let's see how the final law is actually written and applied to the different holidays. There may be some wiggle room that'll make this hit and miss when push comes to shove. |
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