How many working days in year 1999?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1999 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 1999.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 1999
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Monday, 15 February, 1999
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Tuesday, 16 February, 1999
4. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Wednesday, 17 February, 1999
5. Independence Movement Day : Monday, 1 March, 1999
6. Children's Day : Wednesday, 5 May, 1999
7. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Thursday, 23 September, 1999
8. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Friday, 24 September, 1999
And here are the 7 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Buddha's Birthday : Saturday, 22 May, 1999
2. Memorial Day : Sunday, 6 June, 1999
3. Liberation Day : Sunday, 15 August, 1999
4. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Saturday, 25 September, 1999
5. National Foundation Day : Sunday, 3 October, 1999
6. Hangeul Day : Saturday, 9 October, 1999
7. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 1999