Seoul Lantern Festival
Every November, Seoul Lantern Festival lights up Cheonggye Plaza and sections of Cheonggyecheon Stream with a variety of colorful lights under different concepts. The festival first started in celebration of the 2009 Visit Korea Year and has since grown into Seoul’s main winter cultural tourist festival sought out by over 2.5 million spectators annually.
2019 Seoul Lantern Festival Overview
Theme: Your Seoul, Light through Dream
Date and Time: Nov. 1 – 17, 2019 / Lights on at 17:00, lights off at 22:00 (23:00 on Sat., Sun.)
Venue: Cheonggye Plaza – Supyogyo Bridge, about 1.2km
There are several event themes:
- Section 1: Seoul, Your Fairytale
- Section 2: Seoul, Find Your Fairytale
- Section 3: Seoul, Tales of the Olden Times
- Section 4: Seoul, Our Fairytale Land
Additional Events: Experience programs including floating wish lanterns, making paper fairytale lanterns, making traditional lucky fortune lanterns.
Date: 2020.11.01 ~ 2020.11.17
Tel: +82-2-3788-0856
Official Website: Seoul Lantern FestivalSeoul Lantern Festival
This festival is held only once a year.
A very beautiful festival and peculiar only to Korea (Perhaps similar festivals are held in both China and Japan, but I’m not sure). They made very beautiful fairy-tale characters from paper. From my acquaintances, I saw “Puss in Boots”, “The Nutcracker” and a couple of characters from popular Korean fairy tales that we taught and translated into our native language at the university.
Volunteers in the uniform are on duty along the river so that people don’t fall and damage themselves. Because a lot of people come to this festival and everyone wants to take a closer look at the figures and take pictures with them. But we must not forget that safety is paramount.
Address: Changsin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Seoul International Fireworks Festival
This is a very beautiful festival, which many of us are looking forward. Especially children and lovers. In this day people from all over capital gather and not only Seoul. They come from cities that are not far from the capital.
A firework show begins in the evening when it gets dark. Before that, musicians perform, various food is sold and various entertainment programs are held.
People begin to come here in the afternoon and even in the morning. Because at the weekend everyone wants to relax outside the home. It is advisable to come to this festival early, as you will need to take a seat. Fireworks will be seen absolutely from anywhere in the park. 
As you can see in the picture there are too many people, and if you come in the evening, there will be no place even where you can stand and sit.
After the end of the festival, all people are in a hurry to catch the metro. There are a lot of people and in order to go home, you have to wait for the metro for a very long time. Some people even leave without waiting for the end of the festival.
Date: 5th Oct. 2019 (SAT) 13:00 – 21:30;
Phone: +82-2-3498-0875;
Fee: Free Admission;
Address: 330 Yeouidong-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul (Yeouido Hangang Park);
Subway: Yeouinaru Station (subway line 5) exit 3; Saetgang Station (subway line 9) exit 3.
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