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# Korea (North and South)

# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10):
# http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=200607100012
# Korea ran a daylight saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it
# during the 1950-53 Korean War.  The system was temporarily enforced
# between 1987 and 1988 ...

# From Sanghyuk Jung (2014-10-29):
# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021830.html
# According to the Korean Wikipedia
# http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/한국_표준시
# [oldid=12896437 2014-09-04 08:03 UTC]
# DST in Republic of Korea was as follows....  And I checked old
# newspapers in Korean, all articles correspond with data in Wikipedia.
# For example, the article in 1948 (Korean Language) proved that DST
# started at June 1 in that year.  For another example, the article in
# 1988 said that DST started at 2:00 AM in that year.

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
Rule	ROK	1948	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1948	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
Rule	ROK	1949	only	-	Apr	 3	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1949	1951	-	Sep	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
Rule	ROK	1950	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1951	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1955	only	-	May	 5	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1955	only	-	Sep	 9	0:00	0	S
Rule	ROK	1956	only	-	May	20	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1956	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
Rule	ROK	1957	1960	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1957	1960	-	Sep	Sun>=18	0:00	0	S
Rule	ROK	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
Rule	ROK	1987	1988	-	Oct	Sun>=8	3:00	0	S