Official observance
Parents’ Day in Korea
A day in Korea to thank parents and elders.
How did it begin?
Korea’s Mother’s Day, observed from 1956, was renamed Parents’ Day in 1973. It became a day to express gratitude and respect to fathers and elders as well as mothers.
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