{"id":43,"date":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/post-36-substitute-holidays-are-coming-to-korea\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"post-36-substitute-holidays-are-coming-to-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/post-36-substitute-holidays-are-coming-to-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-36: Substitute Holidays are Coming (to Korea)"},"content":{"rendered":"
This year, we were all disappointed to see Lunar New Year’s Day (a.k.a. “Chinese New Year”) fall on a Sunday. Last year, Chuseok (a fall harvest festival) also fell on a Sunday.
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\n<\/span>Those are three-day-block holidays, on the sacrosanct side of Korean social life. No regular employer would dare intrude upon them.  Well, this year the Lunar New Year “three-day block” ended up being Saturday-Sunday-Monday. We got a single <\/em>day off (above normal). It was out the door on Friday evening, and back at the desk, as normal, on Tuesday morning! (Well, “morning” used loosely — office hours for us officially begin at 2 PM and end at 10 PM).<\/p>\n

The USA, has [I think] a legal mandate to give ‘substitute’ days off (e.g., Monday July 5th off, in lieu of Sunday July 4th). As of 2013, South-Korea has nothing like this. This is one of the many small blemishes on work-life in South Korea. Yes, it may be one of the richest nations in the world, but so often it doesn’t…act like it.<\/p>\n

Now, though, the government is proposing<\/a> adopting U.S.-style ‘substitute holidays’:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Beginning next year [2014], the nation is most likely to have a substitute holiday when a national holiday falls on a Sunday. […..]<\/p>\n

<\/span>Under the bill awaiting its passage, each of the three-day Lunar New Year and Chuseok holidays would be extended to four-day holidays when Lunar New Year\u2019s Day or Chuseok falls on a Saturday or a Sunday. For instance, when Chuseok falls on a Saturday, the nation would take the preceding Thursday off, and it would take the coming Tuesday off when it falls on a Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An editorial in the Korea Herald<\/em> pointed out that South-Koreans work 25% more hours\/year than the rich-world’s average. One reason is the lack of holidays and lack of vacation time.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, we were all disappointed to see Lunar New Year’s Day (a.k.a. “Chinese New Year”) fall on a Sunday. Last year, Chuseok (a fall harvest festival) also fell on a Sunday. Those are three-day-block holidays, on the sacrosanct side of Korean social life. No regular employer would dare intrude upon them.  Well, this year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}