A subcommittee of the Nationwide Meeting’s inside and security committee on Monday handed a revision to the Public Holidays Act that may restore Structure Day as a public vacation for the primary time in 18 years.
Noticed yearly on July 17, Structure Day had been a public vacation till it was reclassified in 2008 as a commemorative day, after which authorities workplaces and companies now not closed for the event.
Amongst Korea’s 5 nationwide commemorative days, Structure Day is at present the one one that isn’t designated as a public vacation.
If the revision passes a plenary assembly of the committee and a plenary vote of the Meeting, Structure Day might be redesignated as a public vacation for the primary time in 18 years beginning subsequent yr.
Earlier in July, Lee instructed senior aides and secretaries to evaluation the potential of reinstating it as a public vacation marking the 77th anniversary of Structure Day.
