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This is a list of public holidays in North Korea. See also the Korean calendar for a list of traditional holidays. As of 2017, the North Korean calendar has 71 official public holidays, including Sundays. [1] In the past, North Koreans relied on rations provided by the state on public holidays for feasts. Recently, with marketization people are ...
Festivals in North Korea (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Public holidays in North Korea" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The Day of the Sun (Korean: 태양절; MR: T'aeyang-jŏl) is an annual public holiday in North Korea on 15 April, the birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, founder and Eternal President of North Korea. [2] It is the most important national holiday in the country, [3] and is considered to be the North Korean equivalent of Christmas. [4]
Along with the Day of the Sun, the birthday of his father Kim Il Sung, it is the most important public holiday in the country. [3] Kim Jong Il was born in 1941 (Juche 30) in the Soviet Union, [4] although North Korean propaganda says the date is 16 February 1942 (Juche 31) and places the birth in the Mount Paektu area in Korea. [4]
The first tour is set to take place between Feb. 12 and 18, during which time major celebrations are planned for the birthday of the country's late leader Kim Jong Il, one of North Korea's biggest ...
The Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War (Victory Day) is a national holiday in North Korea celebrated on July 27 to mark the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement which brought a cease fire to the Fatherland Liberation War (Korean War) that took place in 1950–53; it is referred to as "Victory Day" despite the fact that the war is generally regarded as having ended in a ...
January 8 is Kim Jong Un's 34th birthday — but nobody in North Korea is celebrating with him. According to the country's official calendar, as cited by the BBC, the day is just a normal working ...
The National Liberation Day of Korea is a public holiday celebrated annually on 15 August in both North Korea and South Korea. It commemorates the day when Korean Peninsula was liberated by the Allies in 1945 from 35 years of Japanese colonial rule. The day also coincides with the anniversary of the founding of South Korea in 1945. [1]