Book Leave for November 22, 2701? The Solar-Eclipse Meme That Plans 675 Years Ahead

How long can you save up vacation days? A Korean poster tells readers to put a date on the calendar—675 years in the future.

An October 25, 2026 post on Theqoo titled 'A day you absolutely must take off' features a screenshot labeled 'Total Solar Eclipse, November 22, 2701,' a countdown reading 'D-247333' and a map of an eclipse path through the Seoul metropolitan area. The image also asserts this would be the first Seoul view since 1852, 849 years earlier. These are claims visible in a reposted image, not all independently established facts.

The setup borrows a very familiar workplace instruction—request vacation before a special day—and pairs it with a date centuries away. The mismatch is the joke, not a serious travel recommendation. The reposter says to mark your calendar. A fresh view showed 4,043 views and 34 comments; those counters do not prove what commenters thought.

The directly observable jokes are the 'must take leave' headline, the enormous countdown, and the author's short instruction to mark the calendar. The post treats a distant astronomical event like a next-week office appointment. The individual 34 comments were not accessible, so no specific reactions are invented.

A total solar eclipse is visible only along a relatively narrow path where the Moon completely blocks the Sun. Confirming an eclipse date is different from predicting precisely where and when totality will be seen in the year 2701. This post is best read as workplace humor about enormous timescales.

NASA Goddard's eclipse database calculates a total solar eclipse for November 22, 2701. An independent eclipse-prediction site lists totality for Goyang, near Seoul. However, NASA warns that predictions five or more centuries away have uncertainty from Earth's changing rotation, affecting local timing and path. The screenshot's claim about the last Seoul eclipse in 1852 and its exact countdown were not independently verified.

Closer to the date, improved astronomical models would be needed for precise local viewing details. As a practical matter, this is a comic calendar entry rather than a genuine vacation plan.