Korea Events Calendar
Korea events calendar lists festivals, exhibitions, seasonal highlights and traditional customs month by month, with ticketing dates, hours and map links. Don’t miss all of the amazing things you can do in Korea.
New this month
Seoul International Garden Show at Maeheon Citizen’s Forest
📍 Maeheon Citizens' Forest, 99, Maeheon-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul · 서울특별시 서초구 매헌로 99 (양재동)
A software-centered garden culture festival that strengthens citizen participation and healing programs, aiming to renew aging parks and spread garden culture.
Seoul Light Hangang Bitseom Festival
📍 Nodeul Island · 노들섬
Rhapsody Of Light: Seoul Light Hangang Bitseom Festival is Korea’s largest waterfront laser art festival, staged along the Hangang River in Seoul. Held each year on a rotation of the river’s six islands — Nanjido, Yeouido, Seonyudo, Nodeul, Seoraeseom and Ttukseom — it offers a singular experience where nature, art and technology meet. The festival is built on the keyword ‘Bitseom 3L’, comprising Laser Art, Light of Companionship and Lecture.
15th Gangnam Festival: Hey Gangnam
📍 Dosan-daero, CGV Cheongdam · 도산대로 CGV청담시네시티앞
K-Royal Culture Festival (궁중문화축전)
📍 Seoul
The K-Royal Culture Festival is held at the five Royal Palaces and Jongmyo Shrine. The festival first began in 2014 and provides visitors with first-hand knowledge of these important cultural heritages through unique performances, exhibitions, experiences and programs. The festival expanded in 2021 to be hosted twice a year, in spring and in fall.
Events take place at Gyeongbokgung Palace, Changdeokgung Palace, Changgyeonggung Palace, Deoksugung Palace, and Jongmyo Shrine.
Click the link to learn about the stamp tour and how to participate.
Gwanak Gang Gam-chan Festival (관악강감찬축제)
📍 77 Nakseong-daero, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea · 서울특별시 관악구 낙성대로 77
The Gang Gam-chan Festival continues its legacy today by offering a variety of programs set against cultural heritage deeply imbued with the general’s spirit, such as Nakseongdae, where General Gang Gam-chan was born where the fourth star of the Big Dipper, Mungokseong, is said to have fallen; Inheon-dong, named after the general’s posthumous title; and Seowon-dong, where a pavilion is said to have been frequently visited by the general when traveling between Songdo, all set against the cultural heritage that carries the spirit of the general. The third week of October marks the beginning of "Tomorrow, Gang Gam-chan." Marking its 10th anniversary in 2026, the Gwanak Gang Gam-chan Festival will expand its content as Seoul’s premier Goryeo historical and cultural festival embracing K-culture, and rise anew as a sustainable, mutually beneficial festival that connects generations and revitalizes the region.
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Main program
- “21 A Walk Around Our Neighborhood.” Community participation programs such as the “Citizen Pungnyu Festival” and the “Gang Gam-chan Talk Show” with instructor Seol Min-seok
Cultural and artistic programs such as the themed performances “Nakseong Yeonhui” and “Byeolbyeol Stage”
- Programs to revitalize the local economy, such as “Goryeo Market” and “Byeokrando 21”
- Education-linked programs such as “Little Gang Gam-chan,” “Starry Playground,” and “Nakseongdae Night Festival”
Still going on / more dates
Andong Mask Dance Festival (안동국제탈춤페스티벌)
📍 200 Chukjejang-gil, Andong-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do · (경상북도 안동시 육사로 239)
Traditional Korean mask dances are performed as well as mask dances by international troupes too. From folk culture to dance lessons, exhibits and more, this is a great event to plan a weekend away around. The Andong Hahoe Village is a must-visit.
Busan Biennale (부산비엔날레)
📍 Busan · 부산
Korea's oldest contemporary biennial, founded 1981 as the Busan Youth Biennale, consolidated in 1998 (as PICAF, renamed Busan Biennale from 2002) from three antecedent events, and the institution that has carried the port-city argument across forty years of Korean contemporary art.
Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale (경기도자비엔날레)
📍 263 Gyeongchung-daero 2697beon-gil, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do · 경기도 이천시 경충대로2697번길 263 (관고동)
The Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale features a range of exhibitions and educational events. The event takes place at various locations in Korea famous for ceramics, including Icheon, Yeoju, and Gwangju.
Locations include:
- Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (Icheon)
263, Gyeongchung-daero 2697beon-gil, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum (Gwangju)
727, Gyeongchung-daero, Gonjiam-eup, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do
- Gyeonggi Museum of Ceramic Design (Yeoju)
7, Silleuksa-gil, Yeoju-si, Gyeonggi-do
Hongseong Namdang Port Shrimp Festival (홍성남당항 대하축제)
📍 Namdang-ri, Seobu-myeon, Hongseong-gun, Chungnam · 충남 홍성군 서부면 남당리
The 31st Hongseong Namdang Port Prawn Festival is Hongseong's representative autumn food festival where visitors can enjoy the pristine waters of Cheonsuman Bay and fresh, seasonal prawns.
Jeju Biennale
📍 1100-ro, Jeju-si, Jeju-do · 제주특별자치도 제주시 1100로 2894-78
The 5th Jeju Biennale 2026 attends to the processes through which Jeju's indigenous culture, in its encounter with northern civilizations, has mixed, gathered, and metamorphosed into Iyahong. Taking Iyahong (the refrain of a Jeju folk song) as its central concept, the Biennale embodies the metamorphic process of flowing, mingling, and being reborn. Through Jeju as an island of metamorphosis, it presents the modes of survival and aesthetics cultivated in the coexistence and symbiosis of things and nature, humans and deities.
As crossroads and platform where southern maritime and northern continental cultures intersect, Jeju has formed a distinctively syncretic culture. The island has functioned not as a site of isolation, but as a cultural threshold of ceaseless connection and metamorphosis. Where the 4th Jeju Biennale illuminated Jeju at the heart of maritime civilizational history through the keyword Drift, the 5th Biennale examines Jeju as a site of convergence with northern civilizations — formed at the crossing of history (politics), nature (geology), and polytheistic culture (faith and belief) — through three keywords: Exile, Stone Culture, and Mythology.
Locations include:
- Jeju Museum of Art
2894-78, 1100-ro, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea
- Jeju Stone Park
2023, Namjo-ro, Jocheon-eup, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea
- Jeju Arts Platform
18, Jungang-ro 14-gil, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea
- Art Space IAa
21, Jungang-ro 14-gil, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea
- Gallery Remicon
31, Sanji-ro, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Republic of Korea
Seoul International Garden Show
📍 Seoul Forest Area, 273 Ttukseom-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul · 서울특별시 성동구 뚝섬로 273
Approximately 150,000 pyeong or more (Seoul Forest + Seongsu area)
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Creation of 'Seoul Forest Grand Garden' encompassing Seoul Forest, the Han River, Seongsu-dong, and Ttukseom Grand Garden