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Snowmeow
Joined: 03 Oct 2005
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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:08 am Post subject: Arbor Day, April 5th - holiday? |
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| Is Arbor Day a national holiday here? I see it on my calendar as April 5th, but I believe I am going to work that day. Anyone have that day off? |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: |
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It's not a national holiday.
The next national holiday is 어린이날 or Children's Day (May 5th), but it's on a Saturday. Crappy for Korean public school teachers since that's the odd Saturday off anyway.
The next national holiday after that is 석가탄신일 or Buddha's Birthday (May 24th). It's on a Thursday. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:48 am Post subject: Re: Arbor Day, April 5th - holiday? |
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| Snowmeow wrote: |
| Is Arbor Day a national holiday here? |
It usd to be, but a couple of years ago the Korean government was like, "Hey, things don't suck enough in April with the Yellow Sky. Let's kill this holiday."
And thus it has been ever since. |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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I believe that last year there were 5 major forest fires on Arbor Day in Korea. Instead of planting trees on Arbor Day, people liked to go hiking...and smoking. Also, stamping out your cigarette butt in Korea isn't a wide-spread practice. Anyways, large spike in hikers + population where over 50% of males smoke + littering lit cigarettes is cool + dry april weather = one less holiday.
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That's a Korean happy face. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Hapkido-In wrote: |
I believe that last year there were 5 major forest fires on Arbor Day in Korea. Instead of planting trees on Arbor Day, people liked to go hiking...and smoking. Also, stamping out your cigarette butt in Korea isn't a wide-spread practice. Anyways, large spike in hikers + population where over 50% of males smoke + littering lit cigarettes is cool + dry april weather = one less holiday.
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That's a Korean happy face. |
Acutually, I think Koreans are more paranoid than foreigners about putting cigarettes out. Maybe that has to do with the forest fire thing.
Maybe that was just my boss though. He said that Koreans always put them out with by scraping it with the bottom of one shoe. Seem this done quite a bit. And apparently there's a big fine for throwing your butt out the car window on the highway. |
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Daejeon, ROK
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Actually when the Korean government decided to implement a five day wook week they decided to axe some holidays. They were worried about a decline in productivity with people working less hours during the week.
To make up for this decline they got rid of Arbor Day and another (Iforget which one(s) ) |
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