Korean calendar

[1] The Gregorian calendar was adopted on 1 January 1896, with the Korean era name Geonyang (건양; 建陽; lit.

This numbering was informally used with the Korean lunar calendar before 1945 but has only been occasionally used since 1961, and mostly in North Korea prior to 1997.

The current version is based on China's Shixian calendar (Korean: 시헌력; Hanja: 時憲暦; RR: siheollyeok), which was in turn revised by Jesuit scholars.

In North Korea, the Juche calendar was used between 1997 and 2024 to number its years, based on the birth of the state's founder Kim Il Sung.

(한식, 寒食) (초파일, 初八日) or Seok-ga Tan-shin-il (석가탄신일; 釋迦誕生日) (단오, 端午) or Surit-nal (수릿날) (유두, 流頭) (칠석, 七夕) (백중, 百中) (추석, 秋夕) (중양절, 重陽節) (동지, 冬至) (섣달그믐) There are also many regional festivals celebrated according to the lunar calendar.

The gravestone of Kim Ku's wife, Ch'oe Chun-rye, uses the Dangun calendar written using hangul numerals ( ㄱ =1, ㄴ =2, etc) for her birth year (" ㄹㄴㄴㄴ해 " = 4222 = 1889 CE). For her death year, it uses hangul numerals to indicate the number of years after the founding of the Korean Provisional Government (" ㅂ해 " = 6 = 1924 CE).