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 Seoulโs 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 โ 17, 2019 / Lights on at 17:00, lights off at 22:00 (23:00 on Sat., Sun.)
Venue: Cheonggye Plaza โ 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
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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.