National Celebration Days
These days celebrate events considered joyous to Korea. In the beginning, Independence Declaration Day(March 1) was first stipulated in 1945. in 1946. After the establishment of the Government of the Republic of Korea in 1948, four major National Celebration Days(Independence Declaration Day, Constitution Day, Liberation Day, National Foundation Day) were provided by "The Law Concerning the National Celebration Days"(국경일에관한법률) in 1949. In 2005, Hangul Day became the 5th National Celebration day.
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Famous quotes containing the words national, celebration and/or days:
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
—Larry Speakes (b. 1939)
“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)