Chuseok

The festival developed from harvest traditions and became deeply tied to reunion travel, gift-giving, and ritual visits that shape the entire holiday period.

Its influence on transport, logistics, and time off is so strong that the date works as both a cultural marker and a major planning signal.

Chuseok is marked as a nationwide observance in the current Coreia do Sul holiday data.

Chuseok works as more than a date check in Coreia do Sul; it is a public marker that affects staffing, support coverage, school calendars, and travel timing. The next tracked occurrence is September 24, 2026, so this page acts as a quick planning note as well as a historical explainer.

Chuseok also appears in other country calendars such as South Korea. The next recorded dates across that wider footprint include South Korea on September 24, 2026, which helps explain why airline schedules, payroll calendars, and global customer-support shifts often treat the holiday as a regional wave rather than a single-country event.

Coreia do Sul plans this holiday primarily around Asia/Seoul. Chuseok also tends to be planned alongside Lunar New Year, Buddha's Birthday, and Christmas Day, because people rarely make calendar decisions about one public holiday in isolation.