Greeting cards for South Korea
11 holidays and observances locally associated with South Korea.
The list below gathers every CardVerse occasion that Wikidata associates with South Korea. It includes nationally observed public holidays, religious holidays of the country’s major faith communities, cultural festivals, and civic remembrance days. If you’re sending a card to someone in South Korea, this page is a good shortcut for finding an occasion they’re likely to recognise immediately.
Some occasions appear under more than one country — widely shared holidays like New Year, Christmas and Mother’s Day may show up here even though they aren’t exclusive to South Korea. For occasions that aren’t country-specific (birthdays, anniversaries, sympathy, friendship cards), see the categories index.
- Religious Holiday Cards
Buddha's birthday
birthday of the Prince Siddhartha Gautama
8th day of the 4th month in the Chinese calendar - Awareness Day Cards
Ch'usŏk
major harvest festival in Korea celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar (the full moon night)
15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Double Ninth Festival
traditional Chinese holiday
ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Gaecheonjeol
public holiday in South Korea
October 3 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Gwangbokjeol
public holiday in North and South Koreas (15th of August), celebrating the surrender of the Japanese Empire (which had annexed Korea) at the…
August 15 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Hangul Day
public holiday in North Korea (15th January) and South Korea (9th October)
October 9 - Awareness Day Cards
Korean New Year
day off to commemorate January 1 in the lunar calendar in Korea
Lunar/Lunisolar New Year's Day - National & Civic Holiday Cards
Memorial Day
South Korean public holiday commemorating those who died while in military service during the Korean War and others
June 6 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Samiljeol
public holiday in South Korea; 1st March
March 1 - World Observances
Science Day
observance in South Korea; 21 April
April 21 - Cultural & Heritage Cards
Singmogil
annual holiday in South Korea
April 5
Cultural deep-dives for South Korea
Beyond the dated calendar above, CardVerse keeps editorially curated cultural-detail pages for the major festivals of East Asia & Pacific. Each one covers origin, native-language greetings, design tips and reference links.
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Cultural guide
Chuseok
Korea's three-day harvest moon festival — the country's largest annual holiday, centred on family reunion and ancestral rites.…
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Cultural guide
Lunar New Year
The fifteen-day festival opening the lunisolar year — the largest annual human migration on earth.…
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Cultural guide
Seollal
Korea's three-day Lunar New Year — a quieter, more familial cousin of the Chinese new year, centred on the bow to elders and a bow…
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Cultural guide
Vesak
The most sacred Theravada Buddhist holiday, observing the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha — all on the same fu…