Public Holidays in South Korea 2025

There are 17 Korean public holidays in 2025, counting substitute days. 15 of them fall on working days, which leaves 246 working days after 104 weekend days.

The Korean public holidays in 2025 are New Year's Day (Wednesday, January 1), Seollal (Lunar New Year) (Tuesday, January 28), Seollal (Lunar New Year) (day 2) (Wednesday, January 29), Seollal (Lunar New Year) (day 3) (Thursday, January 30), Independence Movement Day (Saturday, March 1), Independence Movement Day (substitute holiday) (Monday, March 3), Children's Day (Monday, May 5), Buddha's Birthday (Monday, May 5), Children's Day (substitute holiday) (Tuesday, May 6), Memorial Day (Friday, June 6), Liberation Day (Friday, August 15), National Foundation Day (Friday, October 3), Chuseok (Sunday, October 5), Chuseok (day 2) (Monday, October 6), Chuseok (day 3) (Tuesday, October 7), Chuseok (substitute holiday) (Wednesday, October 8), Hangeul Day (Thursday, October 9) and Christmas Day (Thursday, December 25).

There are 6 long weekends of three days or more in 2025: Jan 28–Jan 30 (3 days, Seollal (Lunar New Year), Seollal (Lunar New Year) (day 2), Seollal (Lunar New Year) (day 3)); Mar 1–Mar 3 (3 days, Independence Movement Day); May 3–May 6 (4 days, Children's Day); Jun 6–Jun 8 (3 days, Memorial Day); Aug 15–Aug 17 (3 days, Liberation Day); Oct 3–Oct 9 (7 days, National Foundation Day, Chuseok, Chuseok (day 2), Chuseok (day 3), Hangeul Day).

The weekend in South Korea is Saturday and Sunday. Holidays that fall on a weekend are shown in the list, and the weekday given off instead is listed as well.

Public holidays (공휴일) under the Regulations on Holidays of Government Offices. Election days are also holidays.