Public holidays in South Korea
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Next holidayAlternative holiday for National Foundation Day ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผMonday, October 5, 2026 ยท today
2026
22 public holidays in 2026
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2026 | Thu | New Year's Day ์ ์ ์ฐํด |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Mon | The day preceding Korean New Year ์ค๋ ์ ๋ |
| Feb 17, 2026 | Tue | Korean New Year ์ค๋ |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Wed | The second day of Korean New Year ์ค๋ ๋ค์๋ |
| Mar 1, 2026 | Sun | Independence Movement Day ์ผ์ผ์ |
| Mar 2, 2026 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Independence Movement Day ์ผ์ผ์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| May 1, 2026 | Fri | Labor Day ๋ ธ๋์ |
| May 5, 2026 | Tue | Children's Day ์ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋ |
| May 24, 2026 | Sun | Buddha's Birthday ๋ถ์ฒ๋์ค์ ๋ |
| May 25, 2026 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Buddha's Birthday ๋ถ์ฒ๋์ค์ ๋ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Wed | Local Election Day ์ง๋ฐฉ์ ๊ฑฐ์ผ |
| Jun 6, 2026 | Sat | Memorial Day ํ์ถฉ์ผ |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Fri | Constitution Day ์ ํ์ |
| Aug 15, 2026 | Sat | Liberation Day ๊ด๋ณต์ |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Liberation Day ๊ด๋ณต์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Thu | The day preceding Chuseok ์ถ์ ์ ๋ |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Fri | Chuseok ์ถ์ |
| Sep 26, 2026 | Sat | The second day of Chuseok ์ถ์ ๋ค์๋ |
| Oct 3, 2026 | Sat | National Foundation Day ๊ฐ์ฒ์ |
| Oct 5, 2026 | Mon | Alternative holiday for National Foundation Day ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Oct 9, 2026 | Fri | Hangul Day ํ๊ธ๋ |
| Dec 25, 2026 | Fri | Christmas Day ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ ์ผ |
2027
24 public holidays in 2027
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2027 | Fri | New Year's Day ์ ์ ์ฐํด |
| Feb 6, 2027 | Sat | The day preceding Korean New Year ์ค๋ ์ ๋ |
| Feb 7, 2027 | Sun | Korean New Year ์ค๋ |
| Feb 8, 2027 | Mon | The second day of Korean New Year ์ค๋ ๋ค์๋ |
| Feb 9, 2027 | Tue | Alternative holiday for Korean New Year ์ค๋ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Mar 1, 2027 | Mon | Independence Movement Day ์ผ์ผ์ |
| May 1, 2027 | Sat | Labor Day ๋ ธ๋์ |
| May 3, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Labor Day ๋ ธ๋์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| May 5, 2027 | Wed | Children's Day ์ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋ |
| May 13, 2027 | Thu | Buddha's Birthday ๋ถ์ฒ๋์ค์ ๋ |
| Jun 6, 2027 | Sun | Memorial Day ํ์ถฉ์ผ |
| Jul 17, 2027 | Sat | Constitution Day ์ ํ์ |
| Jul 19, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Constitution Day ์ ํ์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Aug 15, 2027 | Sun | Liberation Day ๊ด๋ณต์ |
| Aug 16, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Liberation Day ๊ด๋ณต์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Sep 14, 2027 | Tue | The day preceding Chuseok ์ถ์ ์ ๋ |
| Sep 15, 2027 | Wed | Chuseok ์ถ์ |
| Sep 16, 2027 | Thu | The second day of Chuseok ์ถ์ ๋ค์๋ |
| Oct 3, 2027 | Sun | National Foundation Day ๊ฐ์ฒ์ |
| Oct 4, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for National Foundation Day ๊ฐ์ฒ์ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Oct 9, 2027 | Sat | Hangul Day ํ๊ธ๋ |
| Oct 11, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Hangul Day ํ๊ธ๋ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
| Dec 25, 2027 | Sat | Christmas Day ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ ์ผ |
| Dec 27, 2027 | Mon | Alternative holiday for Christmas Day ๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ ์ผ ๋์ฒด ํด์ผ |
National public holidays only; regional holidays and observances may differ. Some religious holidays depend on moon sighting and can shift by a day โ check official announcements.