pro~o~ue
hnost all Koreans love tile month of Octobel=
ctober is the middle of atltumn， tlle weather
is cool aud crisp， file high sky is a brilliant blue and
people flock to tile mountains to see ride dampoong，
tim tunfing of tile lem es in their bright oranges， reds
mid yellows. Best of all are tide holidays that fall in
the first， nine days of the nlonth. The first is Armed
Forces Day with its patriotic speeches and militara
p~，rades， foUowed by a bridge day to the next
b01iday on dxe tlfird， Founder s Dax; celebrating the
mythical first ancestor of Korea， Tangun. Six days later
Koreans are free again on tile ninth， Hangul Day，
cotlalnemorating the invention of a phonetic， written
fqrm of Korean，
As if that were not euough， ida October of 1979
Chnsok， tide atttumn festival， lell on the fifth， a
Friday， virtually obliterating the work week and
allowing tens of thousauds of Koreans to jaln trains，
planes and buses on their way to their hometowns
to spend the long weekend with their families，
honoriug the dead members and el~joying copious
food， drink and song.
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