How many working days in year 2009?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2009 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2009.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. 신정 : Thursday, 1 January, 2009
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Monday, 26 January, 2009
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Tuesday, 27 January, 2009
4. 삼일절 : Monday, 2 March, 2009
5. 어린이날 : Tuesday, 5 May, 2009
6. 추석 : Friday, 2 October, 2009
7. 한글날 : Friday, 9 October, 2009
8. 성탄절 : Friday, 25 December, 2009
And here are the 7 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Sunday, 25 January, 2009
2. 삼일절 : Sunday, 1 March, 2009
3. 석가탄신일 : Saturday, 2 May, 2009
4. 현충일 : Saturday, 6 June, 2009
5. 광복절 : Saturday, 15 August, 2009
6. 추석 : Saturday, 3 October, 2009
7. 추석 : Sunday, 4 October, 2009