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Based on the Korean calendar, North Korean Mid-Autumn Festival. 10 October: Party Foundation Day [9] Founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in 1945. 노동당 창건일: 9th day of 9th lunar month: Jungyangjeol: Based on the Korean calendar. 16 November: Mother's Day [9] [17] A new holiday from 2012 onward honoring all mothers. 18 November ...
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]
Seollal is one of the most significant holidays in Korea, along with Chuseok. Seollal is New Year’s Day on the Korean lunar calendar. The name originates from the word seol, which means unfamiliar, implying newness of a new coming year. It is unknown when Koreans began celebrating Seollal, but rituals of the festival are estimated to go back ...
The commemoration was not a major celebration under Kim Jong Il's rule, [10] but there had been annual celebrations even before the holiday was officially instituted. [9] Plans for an official holiday surfaced in 2012, [ 4 ] and the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported some celebration of a "Day of Songun " already back then. [ 11 ]
This numbering was informally used with the Korean lunar calendar before 1945 but has only been occasionally used since 1961, and mostly in North Korea prior to 1997. Although not being an official calendar, in South Korea, the traditional Korean calendar is still maintained by the government.
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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 Juche calendar (Korean: 주체력) was the system of year-numbering used in North Korea between 1997 and 2024. It begins with the birth of founding father Kim Il Sung , whose birth year, 1912 in the Gregorian calendar , is Juche 1 in the Juche calendar.