Chuseok

Chuseok is the Korean harvest festival, observed on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. It is one of the major traditional seasonal dates shared across Korean culture and is associated with harvest gratitude, family memory and time with relatives.

The DPRK calendar lists Chuseok as a public holiday. Korean traditions include visiting ancestral graves and sharing seasonal food, though practices, travel and access to relatives are shaped by personal circumstances. The public-holiday listing should not be read as evidence that every household observes the festival in the same way.

Chuseok falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month and in 2026 converted to September 25. The holiday was restricted or deemphasised during some earlier DPRK periods before traditional dates were restored to the calendar. Grave tending, food offerings and family remembrance draw on Korean practices older than the division of the peninsula, but movement controls, economic conditions and institutional schedules shape what is possible in individual communities. The page therefore avoids projecting South Korean mass travel patterns or a standard three-day break onto the DPRK's documented one-day public holiday.