Korean National Day

I got the nod late today to represent the Embassy (or at least the Econ section) at Korea's National Day reception at the Intercontinental Hotel. Korea put on a pretty big shindig, lots of Korean food and women in hanboks. I couldn't figure out why October 4 was the National Day and nobody else there seemed to know either (couldn't find any Koreans who spoke enough English to explain it). Google says it's the day Korea was founded back in 2333 BC, though how anybody knows it happened on October 4 is beyond me.