The Day of the Shining Star (Korean: 광명성절; Hancha: 光明星節; MR: Kwangmyŏngsŏngjŏl) is a public holiday in North Korea falling on 16 February, the anniversary of the birth of the country's second leader, Kim Jong Il.

The North Korean people receive more food rations and electricity than usual on the Day of the Shining Star.

It locates it at the Mount Paektu area in Korea, the mythical place of origin of the Korean people, where Kim Il Sung supposedly ran a guerrilla camp.

"[9] Kim's birthday was provisionally celebrated from 1976 onwards, but it became a national holiday only in 1982,[5] two days after he became a member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea.

[12] The anniversary received its present name in 2012, the year following his death, when the Politburo announced that: "February 16, the greatest auspicious holiday of the nation when the great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il was born, will be instituted as the Day of the Shining Star".

The hybrid begonia plant is named after Kim and has been cultivated to bloom around the Day of the Shining Star.

The North Korean government often allocates more food and energy to the people on the Day of the Shining Star than they usually receive.

[19] Vitaly Mansky's 2015 documentary film Under the Sun chronicles the run-up to such a ceremony on the Day of the Shining Star.