In America, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed a Mother's Day on March 7, 1914 while Father’s Day was made official in 1972 in America by President Nixon.
In 1909, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd hoped to celebrate her father, a civil war veteran and a single parent raising her and her five brothers. Dodd made a lot of effort including signature campaign and a petition to declare Father’s Day for 62 years.
In South Korea, people commemorate the ‘Parent Day’ unlike Australia and western countries which commemorate ‘Mother’s Day’ and ‘Father’s Day’ separately.
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