--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea description: Google celebrates Parent's Day in South Korea with a new doodle. The country is one of the few to combine Mother's and Father's Day. canonical: https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/ author: Ryan Kilpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-08T06:19:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:24.754Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea og:description: The country is one of the few to combine Mother's and Father's Day og:url: https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5653d19d045ad4/6988cc54cf40a8447fc4793a/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-05-08-e4b88be58d8812-42-13.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: parentsdaydoodle og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea twitter:description: The country is one of the few to combine Mother's and Father's Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5653d19d045ad4/6988cc54cf40a8447fc4793a/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-05-08-e4b88be58d8812-42-13.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick May 8, 2017 6:19 AM UTC  Google by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick May 8, 2017 6:19 AM UTC Three days after marking [Children’s Day](http://time.com/4768417/google-doodle-childrens-day/?iid=sr-link1), Google treated its users in South Korea to a new Doodle devoted to Parents’ Day. Celebrated on May 8 every year, the holiday was originally instated as Mothers’ Day in the 1930s before the nation’s fathers were added to the mix in 1973\. The day honors both parents rather than having a separate Mother’s and Father’s Day. It is a day for families to spend time together and the government organizes public celebrations and gives out awards. In the [doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/parents-day-2017), children make red carnation decorations in the shape of Google’s letters. The flowers are regarded as a symbol of love and gratitude, and are a traditional gift from children to their parents to mark the holiday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea","datePublished":"2017-05-08T06:19:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:24.754Z","description":"The country is one of the few to combine Mother's and Father's Day into one holiday","url":"https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5653d19d045ad4/6988cc54cf40a8447fc4793a/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-05-08-e4b88be58d8812-42-13.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Kilpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc5653d19d045ad4/6988cc54cf40a8447fc4793a/e89ea2e5b995e5bfabe785a7-2017-05-08-e4b88be58d8812-42-13.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"parentsdaydoodle","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4770211/google-doodle-parents-day/","name":"Google Doodle Celebrates Parents' Day in South Korea"}}]}] ```