Mungyeong Chasabal Festival
문경찻사발축제 · Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang
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Last verified: 2026-08-22.
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A festival about tea bowls specifically — where Korean ceramics and tea culture meet.
Who it suits: The overlap between tea and ceramics. Chasabal are tea bowls, and Mungyeong's potters still fire them in traditional climbing kilns.
When, where, how much
From the organizer
Organized by Mungyeong Chasabal Festival Organizing Committee. These pages are the organizer's own and open on their site. They are usually Korean only — but that is where the confirmed programme, stage times and site map appear first, and times and prices read the same in any language.
Program: Opening Ceremony Performance, Chasabal Tea Bowl Making, Tea Ceremony Experience, K-Dokdo Promotional Pavilion, Traditional Games, Escape Room Mission
Photos: Korea Tourism Organization · visitkorea.or.kr · KOGL Type 3
Where it is
Where it is in the country — 132 km south-east of Seoul
About 118 km across — 3 other places we cover sit inside it. The pick of them is listed below.
132 km south-east of Seoul, in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang (straight-line distance from Seoul City Hall, calculated from the venue's official coordinates).
We have not timed these connections ourselves, so rather than print a number we have not checked, here is the route on the two apps Koreans actually use — Mungyeongsaejae Provincial Park as the destination, already filled in:
- Directions on Kakao Map — live bus and train times, and which platform
- Naver Map — the stronger of the two in English
From Seoul, journeys to Mungyeong start at Seoul Station (KTX and regular rail) or the Express Bus Terminal. Which of the two wins depends on how many cities you are stringing together — our rail pass guide works through the break-even, and getting around Korea covers why these two apps beat Google Maps once you are on the ground.
Nearby, if you are making a trip of it
Within about 20 km of the venue, by distance:
- Mungyeongsaejae Open Set (0.0 km)
- Mungyeongsaejae Provincial Park (0.0 km)
- Museum of Old Roads (0.2 km)
- OmyNara (3.1 km)
- Cheongungak Hall (3.7 km)
- Korea Tea Cup Museum (4.5 km)
Places and distances from the Korea Tourism Organization's location data. We have not visited all of them.
What it is actually about
We have written about the tea bowls at the centre of this festival, and how they are made — read that first if you want to know what you are looking at before you go, rather than after.
Getting there and staying
For a bed near the festival, Klook's accommodation search for Mungyeong is the quickest way to see what is left — festival weeks fill local rooms earlier than you would expect.
Outside the big cities, wifi is not something to plan around. Shuttle stops, stage times and the day's program are posted on the organizer's Korean-language page or a Naver Map pin, and they change on the day. A Korean eSIM is the cheapest way to have it working before you land.
Planning a trip around it
On at the same time
If your dates are fixed, these run within ten days of Mungyeong Chasabal Festival and are worth checking before you commit to a route.
- Yeoju Ceramic Festival — 2026/03/19 – 05/01, Yeoju, Gyeonggi, 67 km from Seoul.
- Icheon Ceramics Festival — 2026/04/24 – 05/05, Icheon, Gyeonggi, 47 km from Seoul.
- Hampyeong Butterfly Festival — 2026/04/24 – 05/05, Hampyeong, Jeonnam-Gwangju, 282 km from Seoul.
- Boseong Green Tea Festival — 2026/05/01 – 05/05, Boseong, Jeonnam-Gwangju, 317 km from Seoul.
- Hadong Wild Tea Cultural Festival — 2026/05/01 – 05/05, Hadong, South Gyeongsang, 267 km from Seoul.
- Ulsan Onggi Festival — 2026/05/01 – 05/03, Ulju, Ulsan, 314 km from Seoul.
Other festivals in North Gyeongsang
Same province, different times of year — useful if you are choosing when to visit North Gyeongsang rather than when to leave home.
- Andong National Heritage Night - Wolyeong Night Stroll — July, Andong, North Gyeongsang
- Andong Maskdance Festival — September, Andong, North Gyeongsang
- Gyeongju Silla Cultural Festival — October, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang
A mountain in the same trip
Korea's national parks charge nothing to enter, and these are close enough to pair with the rest of this trip rather than needing one of their own.
- Songnisan Hiking — about 33 km away.