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All holidays, including this weekend in 2020, are 115 days. It's two days less than last year, because there are many cases where legal holidays such as March 1st, Memorial Day in June, and Liberation Day overlap with the weekend. As a result, after the holiday of the stepping stone bridge in early May, there have been no rest days except weekends for four months until Chuseok. The government designated Monday as the temporary holiday on August 17.

For more information, this is reporter Kwon Aeri.

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government designated August 17, the day after the Liberation Day weekend, as a temporary holiday, in order to soothe the tiredness of the tired citizens and save the flow of recovery in domestic demand.

Government offices and workplaces with more than 300 employees are required to rest on this day.

[Kang Gyeong-ja/Yangcheon-gu, Seoul: I agree. You didn't play during this year's holiday (which could be).]

It wasn't the first time to designate a temporary holiday in hopes of recovering domestic demand.

This was also the reason for the August 14, 2015, Children's Day holiday, and the Chuseok 2017, just after the MERS incident.

The Hyundai Economic Research Institute estimated that on the 17th of next month, assuming that half of the people could rest, consumption of KRW 2.11 trillion would be achieved.

I thought that the amount of production that could increase due to the outing, shopping, and eating out activities was 4,2 trillion won, and the effect of job creation reached 36,000.

[Lee Ga-hee/'Travel App' staff: (Travel related) Since the companies have been very difficult for the

past, I hope that this season will be a chance to double the peak season effect. However, it is expected that this year, consumption will inevitably be concentrated in Korea, and the effect of promoting domestic demand will be greater.

However, some voices are worried about the widespread corona spread since the holiday in early May.

[All handeok / Seoul Yangcheon holiday season is longer look somehow people would be a lot of movement, Then look gatgoyo will lead to loopholes in quarantine.]

I said do health authorities are not concerned significantly're going to adapt citizens living Defense.

(Video editing: Seon-Tak Kim, VJ: Soyoung Shin)