Korea Events Calendar

Across performance, visual art, architecture, literature and technology, Es Devlin’s first solo exhibition in Korea oversees 30 years of the English artist’s practice. A strong believer in a ‘temporary society’ built by transient audiences, Devlin places emphasis on the moment when individual perception expands into a collective experience. The exhibition’s large-scale installation invites visitors to engage in acts of participatory drawing, literature and audio. The artist harnesses multitudes of mirrors to refract natural and artificial light, illuminating the possibility of new encounters in the presence of others.

Lee Kang So, one of Korea’s most significant contemporary artists, exercises an artistic language guided by philosophical experimentation and reinforced by fluidity across media, including painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance. In 'Emergence and Dissolution', So explores the concept of unfolding, pressing the viewer to question their idea of completion and refocus on the significance of an unfinished process as they interpret new meanings from decades of the artist’s notable and experimental works.

A seafood cultural festival held at Hongwon Port, one of the West Coast’s representative harbors, where visitors can enjoy fresh seasonal seafood and a variety of events. This event is a gourmet journey where you can fully enjoy Seocheon’s finest delicacies: the savory wild gizzard shad and plump seasonal blue crabs. At the festival site, a variety of activities will be offered for everyone to enjoy, including unique hands-on experiences such as barehanded gizzard shad catching, nostalgic traditional folk games, and photo zones where visitors can create precious memories. It is a representative festival where you can savor the finest seasonal seafood along with beautiful sea views and create unforgettable memories.

[Event Details]
1. Experience Program
1) Hands-on experience of catching gizzard shad with bare hands
- Operating hours: Weekends (Sat/Sun) 14:00 / 15:00 (twice daily)
- Location: Experience area inside the festival venue
- Participants: 20 children, 20 adults / first-come, first-served
- Experience Fee: 15,000 KRW
- Note: Participants may take up to 6 gizzard shad caught per person, and if bad weather (rain, strong winds, etc.) occurs on the day of the event and supply is difficult, the event will be canceled

2) Treasure Hunt at the Hongwon Port Event Venue
- Operating hours: Weekends (Sat-Sun) 11:00 ~ 16:00
- Location: Inside the Hongwon Port event venue
- Audience: All tourists who participate in the festival (limited to the first 15 people)
- Details: Local specialty products will be given to tourists who come to find treasure cards hidden throughout the venue

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

Korean-born Do Ho Suh returns to his birth city in MMCA Seoul’s major retrospective, exploring concepts of identity, memory and the enigma of belonging. The exhibition features key early works, notable projects and the debut of new pieces. Large-scale installations remain the cornerstone of Suh’s artistic prowess and take precedence in the exhibition. Through his notable use of polyester fabric and stainless steel, Suh constructs neon translucent structures – doorways, rooftops, rooms and connecting hallways that actively interrogate the meaning of inhabiting a space.

The Ganggyeong National Heritage Night Tour aims to break away from the traditional focus on preservation, actively utilize historical and cultural resources, and spread values that resonate with the public. By creating a network that connects the dispersed modern historical resources within the Ganggyeong area into a single whole, visitors will be encouraged to experience the entire Ganggyeong as one vast historical and cultural space. The event unfolds with a total of 30 detailed programs under eight themes: Night View, Night Road, Night History, Night Painting, Night Installation, Night Food, Night Market, and Night Stay.

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.

The Muan Yellow Soil Tidal Flat Festival is an ecological experience festival held at the Muan Tidal Flats, a UNESCO World Heritage site, under the theme "The Tidal Flats Are Alive." It aims to widely promote the ecological value of the Muan Tidal Flats

This year, in particular, visitors can encounter the many histories and languages of Korean art at once: from the emergence of Korean abstraction and the development of Dansaekhwa to the contemporary expansion of Korean painting, as well as practices exploring migration and identity, social systems, immaterial sensations, and the digital environment.

These exhibitions do not propose a single, shared idea of “Koreanness.” Rather, Korean art today has been shaped by artists from different generations, each of whom has developed a distinct artistic language in response to the conditions and experiences of their own time.