How many working days in year 1997?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1997 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 14 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 247 working days in 1997.
Here is the list of these 14 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 1997
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Thursday, 6 February, 1997
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Friday, 7 February, 1997
4. Independence Movement Day : Monday, 3 March, 1997
5. Children's Day : Monday, 5 May, 1997
6. Buddha's Birthday : Wednesday, 14 May, 1997
7. Memorial Day : Friday, 6 June, 1997
8. Liberation Day : Friday, 15 August, 1997
9. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Monday, 15 September, 1997
10. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Tuesday, 16 September, 1997
11. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Wednesday, 17 September, 1997
12. National Foundation Day : Friday, 3 October, 1997
13. Hangeul Day : Thursday, 9 October, 1997
14. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 1997
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Saturday, 8 February, 1997
2. Independence Movement Day : Saturday, 1 March, 1997