Korean Festivals, One Page Each

These are the individual pages behind the festival calendar: one for each festival, with the venue and hours the calendar has no room for, the distance and bearing from Seoul, the organizer’s own site, and the attractions within reach on the same trip.

Two things worth knowing before you use them.

Dates carry a mark. Where the Korea Tourism Organization publishes confirmed dates, the page says Confirmed. Where it does not, the window comes from the previous year’s timing and says Usual timing instead. Korean festival dates move every year — some follow the lunar calendar, most are set annually by the organizing committee — so an unmarked guess would be worse than no date at all.

Distances are calculated, travel times are not. Every page gives kilometres and a bearing from Seoul, because that comes out of coordinates. Train and bus times appear only on the festivals where we looked them up, because a plausible estimate is not the same as a timetable.

If you are still choosing dates rather than fitting a festival into fixed ones, when to visit Korea is the better starting point, and performances by day covers what runs every week regardless of the festival calendar.