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Gangbuk Baengmaek Festival
- 📅 Dates
- Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 5, 2026
- 📍 Location
- 45 Dobong-ro 97-gil, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul
- 🎫 Admission
- Free
- 🕘 Hours
- 16:00-21:00
- 🎪 Venue
- Baengnyeon Market and Uicheon Stream Area (Ssanghangyo Bridge to Uigyo Bridge) in Gangbuk-gu
- 🏛️ Organizer
- Gangbuk-gu, Seoul
- ☎️ Contact
- +82-2-901-7253
⚠️ This festival's listed dates have passed
The dates above are from the most recent official schedule. Many Korean festivals are annual events held around the same time each year, but the next date has not been officially confirmed yet — please check the official website or a Google search below before planning a trip.
Overview
The Baengmaek Festival, which has grown into a representative event of Gangbuk-gu since 2023, aims to help transform Uicheon Stream into a permanent night market and a cultural space centered along the stream. In line with Seoul’s efforts to develop attractions nearby the stream, the festival highlights the area’s scenic waterfront as its main venue. Bringing together local businesses and young entrepreneurs, the festival creates a welcoming space for people of all ages. Rather than focusing on big-name performers, it features a variety of busking acts and performances by local artists, encour
Source: Korea Tourism Organization (official English translation, TourAPI).
🅿️ Nearby attractions — with actual parking capacity
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🏮 Traditional market days during the festival
Korean country markets open only on days ending in fixed digits — every 5 days. These are the actual dates they open while the festival runs, so you can add one to the same trip.
Names and addresses here stay in Korean on purpose. Google Maps cannot give directions inside South Korea, and NAVER Map / KakaoMap find these places only under their Korean names — copy an address above and paste it straight in.
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Nearby Attractions
Places near the festival venue, described in English by the Korea Tourism Organization. Distances and times are road-based driving estimates from NAVER route search — useful for taxi trips — and can change with traffic. Places under 1 km in a straight line are marked “walkable”. Anything more than 15 km away by road is left out.
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Korean address for map apps서울특별시 강북구 월계로 173 (번동)
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