Wednesday, September 13, 2017

One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mega-Chuseok!

South Korea is weird when it comes to holidays.  If one happens to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, you effectively "lose it."  No fiddling about to move it to the previous Friday or next Monday, no sir.  So living here as long as I have, a winter ritual is to look at the upcoming year's calendar and figure out weather or not the Time Lords have screwed you over yet again, or if you'll get that coveted Tuesday to Thursday major holiday that you've been dying for.

It's strange, and doubly so as a teacher.  I can deal with having to make up a set of Monday classes, but a Wednesday or a Thursday?  When you could just slide it over a bit and give everyone a nice three-day weekend?

Nope.  Because Korea.

Anyhow, this year we've got MEGA CHUSEOK coming up (Korean version of Thanksgiving).  Combined with bookend weekends, it amounts to a whole ten freakin' days of holiday in a country where working on Saturdays is still sort of expected of a lot of people.

It's a big deal folks.

Anyhow, my tentative plan is to visit a friend in Japan and then maybe go down to Busan.  This would have been the perfect time to finally do New Zealand or Australia like I've always wanted, but I'm fine with some lower-key travel.  Flights to Tokyo are very cheap from here of course.

And I've seen The Lord of the Rings and all the Mad Max films so I've pretty much been to NZ and Oz already, right?

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