Yesterday, as I was leaving work, I said somewhat in passing that there was a certain thing I would work on tomorrow. A coworker expressed surprise that I would be working, and I, in turn, was surprised at her surprise.
The outcome is that today is a holiday, and somehow this had completely escaped my notice. I knew that it was what they call a "red day" in Korean – because these types of official government-sanctioned holidays are always marked red on calendars. But I had been under the impression that there had been some kind of compensation such that a day off at some other point was being counterbalanced by a plan to open the hagwon today. I had been mistaken.
I suppose I was quite close to missing the information completely, and going in to work. That happened to me once.
Anyway, it didn't happen this time, and so I'm enjoying the unexpected holiday. What is the holiday? Korean "Memorial Day" – which is possibly the Korean holiday most similar to its US counterpart, in how it's celebrated (somber ceremonies at cemeteries, many flags, but mostly picnics and hanging out).
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]