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How many working days in year 1978?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1978 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 1978.
Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:
1. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Monday, 6 February, 1978
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Tuesday, 7 February, 1978
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Wednesday, 8 February, 1978
4. Independence Movement Day : Wednesday, 1 March, 1978
5. Children's Day : Friday, 5 May, 1978
6. Buddha's Birthday : Monday, 15 May, 1978
7. Memorial Day : Tuesday, 6 June, 1978
8. Liberation Day : Tuesday, 15 August, 1978
9. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Monday, 18 September, 1978
10. National Foundation Day : Tuesday, 3 October, 1978
11. Hangeul Day : Monday, 9 October, 1978
12. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 1978
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 1978
2. Buddha's Birthday : Sunday, 14 May, 1978
3. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Saturday, 16 September, 1978
4. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Sunday, 17 September, 1978