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Kosong, Zuid-Korea
05:12:33 PMWednesday, April 29, 2026 · Asia/Seoul
Kosong County
County in Kangwŏn Province, North Korea
Huidige lokale tijd
05:12:33 PM
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Tijdzone
KST
Asia/Seoul · UTC+09:00
Volgende feestdag
Children's Day
dinsdag 5 mei 2026 · Public
Zakelijke overlap nu
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kosong right now
Dichtstbijzijnde luchthaven
YNY
Yangyang International Airport · 40 km
Geïndexeerde luchthavens
8
Curated airport references available for Zuid-Korea
Snapshot at render time: 05:12:33 PM on Wednesday, April 29, 2026 in Kosong (UTC+09:00, KST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Current weather
15°C, Overcast
Feels like 12°C · Humidity 55% · Wind 13 km/h
Sunrise and sunset
05:31 AM to 07:15 PM
Day length 13h 44m · Solar noon 12:23 PM
Next country holiday
Children's Day
dinsdag 5 mei 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kosong local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Code with Claude San Francisco 2026
keynotewoensdag 6 mei 2026
7 days to go
Mother's Day (US) 2026
festival-secularzondag 10 mei 2026
11 days to go
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techdinsdag 12 mei 2026
13 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvrijdag 15 mei 2026
16 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevrijdag 15 mei 2026
16 days to go
WHO Pandemic Agreement — Adoption at 79th WHA
politicalmaandag 18 mei 2026
19 days to go
Population
62.4K
Coordinates
38.38, 128.47
Timezone
Asia/Seoul
Geïndexeerde luchthavens
8
Capital
Seoul
Languages
Korean
Currency
KRW (₩)
Country area
100,210 km²
For Zuid-Korea, Kosong (rank #88 by population in this dataset) reads KST, UTC+09:00 on the IANA zone Asia/Seoul, and the city's roughly 62.4K residents make it a practical scheduling anchor.
Geographically, Kosong is at 38.38°N, 128.47°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's mid-latitudes, about 4260 km from the equator, with clear seasonal daylight differences across the year.
Today the sun rises around 05:31 AM and sets around 07:15 PM in Kosong — about 13h 44m of daylight. Zuid-Korea stays on standard time here, so UTC+09:00 is stable through the year.
Sokcho (22 km from Kosong) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 8 curated airport pages indexed for Zuid-Korea.
On 2026-05-05, Children's Day is the next holiday flag for Kosong — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Timezone
KST
IANA Zone
Asia/Seoul
UTC Offset
UTC+09:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 119
Days Remaining
246
Quarter
Q2
London
-8h
New York
-13h
Los Angeles
-16h
Dubai
-5h
Singapore
-1h
Tokyo
+0h
Sydney
+1h
São Paulo
-12h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Kosong.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 09:12 AM | -8h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 04:12 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 01:12 AM | -16h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 12:12 PM | -5h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 04:12 PM | -1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 05:12 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 06:12 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 05:12 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
Kosong bevindt zich in de tijdzone Asia/Seoul (KST), met een UTC-verschuiving van +09:00.
Kosong hanteert momenteel geen zomertijd.
De huidige UTC-verschuiving voor Kosong is UTC+09:00.
Kosong sits at 38.38°N, 128.47°E in Zuid-Korea, with about 62.4K residents (rank #88 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kosong is Tokyo, about 1,036 km away as the crow flies.
Sokcho is the closest indexed city, roughly 22 km from Kosong.
Yangyang International Airport (YNY) is the closest curated airport reference, about 40 km from Kosong.
Children's Day is the next upcoming holiday in Zuid-Korea, on dinsdag 5 mei 2026.
Kosŏng is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. It lies in the southeasternmost corner of North Korea, immediately north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Prior to the end of the Korean War in 1953, it made up a single county, together with what is now the South Korean county of the same name. In a subsequent reorganization, the county absorbed the southern portion of Tongch'ŏn county.
From Kosong the nearest of our reference hubs are Tokyo (~1,036 km), Singapore (~4,822 km), Dubai (~6,894 km), while São Paulo sits about 18,302 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Kosong sits inside Zuid-Korea — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Seoul, languages Korean, currency KRW (₩).
Sokcho (22 km), Yanggu (52 km), Jumunjin (63 km), Hwacheon (73 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Kosong — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kosong: Children's Day, Buddha's Birthday, Memorial Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Zuid-Korea.
Closest curated airport references from Kosong: YNY Gonghang-ro (40 km), GMP Seoul (173 km), CJJ Cheongju (204 km).
In 2015, A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
Korea is a strong compare and meeting-planner market because it sits cleanly in the East Asia business day.
Yangyang International AirportYNY
Gonghang-ro · 40 km from Kosong
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Gimpo International AirportGMP
Seoul · 173 km from Kosong
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 58m
Cheongju International Airport/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513)CJJ
Cheongju · 204 km from Kosong
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Incheon International AirportICN
Seoul · 204 km from Kosong
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Daegu International AirportTAE
Daegu · 277 km from Kosong
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 6m
Exchange snapshot
1 KRW = 0.001 EUR · 1 KRW = 0.001 GBP · 1 KRW = 0.001 USD
As of 2026-04-28
On this day
2015: A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2013: A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, and injures 43 people.
2013: National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft, crashes during takeoff from Bagram Airfield in Parwan Province, Afghanistan, killing all seven people on board.
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
