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How many working days in year 2018?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2018 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 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 2018.
Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2018
2. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Thursday, 15 February, 2018
3. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Friday, 16 February, 2018
4. Independence Movement Day : Thursday, 1 March, 2018
5. Children's Day : Monday, 7 May, 2018
6. Buddha's Birthday : Tuesday, 22 May, 2018
7. Memorial Day : Wednesday, 6 June, 2018
8. Liberation Day : Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
9. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Monday, 24 September, 2018
10. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Tuesday, 25 September, 2018
11. National Foundation Day : Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
12. Hangeul Day : Tuesday, 9 October, 2018
13. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2018
And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Seollal / Korean New Year Holiday : Saturday, 17 February, 2018
2. Children's Day : Saturday, 5 May, 2018
3. Chuseok / Midautumn Festival : Sunday, 23 September, 2018