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Seosan Haemi Eupseong Festival
- 📅 Dates
- Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026
- 📍 Location
- 143, Nammun 2-ro, Haemi-myeon, Seosan-si, Chungcheongnam-do
- 🎫 Admission
- Free
- 🕘 Hours
- 11:00-21:00
- 🎪 Venue
- Haemieupseong Walled Town area
- 🏛️ Organizer
- Seosan-si · Seosan Arts & Culture Foundation
- ☎️ Contact
- +82-41-681-3560
⚠️ 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 information below is based on the 2025 festivals. Details for the 2026 festivals will be updated as they become available.*The Seosan Haemi Eupseong Festival is a cultural festival held at Seosan Haemieupseong Walled Town, an ancient fortress with a 600-year history. The festival combines light, music, and the historic fortress to create a fantastic nighttime scenery and offers content for all generations. During the day, visitors can enjoy sophisticated performances while picnicking, and at night, they can partake in a vibrant evening stroll.
Source: Korea Tourism Organization (official English translation, TourAPI).
What happens at Seosan Haemi Eupseong Festival
- Picnic program, stage performance, drone show, etc.
Official programme as registered with the Korea Tourism Organization for the most recent edition. Details can change — check with the organizer before you go.
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📊 How busy this area gets
Visitor-volume index for 서산시, from Korea Tourism Organization big data. 1.00 = that area's own yearly average, so this compares the area against itself — not against Seoul.
Oct — 1.21
The index covers the whole district, not the festival ground itself. Use it to pick a month, not a day. · Aug 1.04 / Oct 1.21
🅿️ Nearby attractions — with actual parking capacity
Most sites only say "parking available." These are official figures from the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, so you can judge before you drive.
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.
🏮 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.
🎪 Other festivals nearby at the same time
Overlapping dates, within 60 km.
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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International Shrine of Haemi Martyrs해미국제성지 Attractionapprox. 2.4 km · ~4 min by car
International Shrine of Haemi Martyrs marks the place where more than 1,000 Catholic believers were buried alive during the persecutions of the 18th and 19th centuries.…
Korean address for map apps충청남도 서산시 해미면 성지1로 13 -
Birth Home of Queen Jeongsun정순왕후생가 Attractionapprox. 6.4 km · ~9 min by car
Birth Home of Queen Jeongsun is the house where Queen Jeongsun (1745-1805), the queen consort of King Yeongjo (1694-1776), the 21st monarch of the Joseon dynasty…
Korean address for map apps충청남도 서산시 음암면 한다리길 39 -
Korea Traditional Architecture Museum한국고건축박물관 Cultural facilityapprox. 14.8 km · ~17 min by car
The traditional Korean architectures designated as valuable cultural assets scattered throughout the nation are on display at a one-tenth or one-fifth scale in this…
Korean address for map apps충청남도 예산군 덕산면 홍덕서로 543
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Taking the trip home
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