South Korea Public Holidays 2025
South Korea has 11 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Christmas Day on 25 December 2025. Three well placed days of leave buy 15 days away from work in 2025, because three holidays sit exactly one working day from a weekend.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see South Korea in 2026 or South Korea in 2027.
Looking back: South Korea observed 11 national public holidays in 2025, one fewer than in 2026. Two fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against five in 2026. The calendar produced five long weekends that year, as many as 2026 gives.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day์ ์ | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Korean New Year์ค๋ | Wednesday | Public holiday3 days | |
| Independence Movement Day3ยท1์ | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Buddha's Birthday์๊ฐํ์ ์ผ | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Children's Day์ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋ | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Memorial Dayํ์ถฉ์ผ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Liberation Day๊ด๋ณต์ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| National Foundation Day๊ฐ์ฒ์ | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Korean Thanksgiving์ถ์ | SundayWeekend | Public holiday3 days | |
| Hangul Dayํ๊ธ๋ | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ ์ผ | Thursday | Public holiday |
- Status
- Set in lawThe calendar is set in standing law rather than announced year by year, so 2025 needs no separate publication.
- Last verified
- The last full review of the dataset behind the South Korea calendar. No correction specific to South Korea has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for South Korea.Always confirm official dates with a local authority before booking travel. How these calendars are built. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it.
Expect the most closures around October (3 holidays), so schedule deliveries and appointments with that in mind. Two of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, which is worth checking if you are counting on days off from work. Below you will find the full 2025 list for South Korea, sorted by date, with the weekday marked for quick planning. We track national holidays only, leaving out regional variations, so the list stays consistent and easy to compare with other countries.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does South Korea have in 2025?
South Korea has 11 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Christmas Day on 25 December 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in South Korea?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in South Korea in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in South Korea is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for South Korea?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of South Korea are listed separately on the South Korea holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the South Korea holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Three of the 11 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (lunisolar calendar), so their date has to be recalculated for every year. The rest keep the same calendar date and only change weekday. Moving ones this year include Korean New Year on 29 January 2025, Buddha's Birthday on 5 May 2025 and Korean Thanksgiving on 5 October 2025.
How far ahead is the South Korea calendar actually fixed?
Through 2027. The holidays are set in law rather than announced year by year, so the dates repeat predictably. What can still change is a law amendment, a one-off holiday declared for a national event, and the exact day of any holiday on the Islamic calendar, which is confirmed by moon sighting. No corrections to the underlying dataset were needed for South Korea.
Which South Korea holidays are regional, and which move?
The table above is the national calendar for 2025. Some holidays keep the same date every year while others are tied to Easter, to a lunar calendar or to a named weekday, and some parts of the country add their own days off. The South Korea holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare South Korea with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for South Korea
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the South Korea public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the South Korea 2025 calendar
Knowing the dates is half the question. The other half is what they add up to: which of them create a long weekend and how many working days the year leaves. The 2025 worldwide overview compares every country on holiday count and weekend overlap, and the country index ranks all 44 of them. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.