He hears you out and, despite his prior assertions, decides to allow you to take the day off and go, but it will be taken out of your holiday time. You agree that this is only fair and thank him for changing his mind.

Soon enough, the day arrives and you and the band make your way to the festival. You wander around for a few hours, do a sound check, listen to the bands performing before you, then take the stage.

The performance goes flawlessly, although they surprised you with some unanticipated pyrotechnics. The crowd really enjoys it and they call you back for an encore.

Excited, tired, and moderately smelly, you all pile back into the lead guitarists car and head home.

After the festival, you begin getting calls to do shows at bars in nearby cities like Daegu, Busan, and Ulsan and spend most of your weekends in those cities.

Things are really busy for you at work and outside work and within a few weeks you feel you need a vacation.

You go to the owner to book your days, having decided to go to Japan with a couple of the other foreigners in town.

You ask the owner for a week off thinking that, with the loss of one day for the festival, you should still have 9 days remaining.

He gives you a strange look, then tells you that you actually only have two days left. He shows you a calendar which marks the days the school has been closed since you got here, outside of weekends and national holidays. The total is seven. Adding the one for the festival, that is eight days out of your holidays leaving you with only two. You:

protest having your holidays deducted without your knowledge.

deflate a little, but take your two days, one each on either side of a weekend.