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Yeongdong Nangye Korean Traditional Music Festival 2026
- 📅 Dates
- Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026
- 📍 Location
- 117, Yeongdong healing-ro, Yeongdong-eup, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do
- 🎫 Admission
- Free (fees vary by programs)
- 🕘 Hours
- 10:00 ~20:00
- 🎪 Venue
- Yeongdong Rainbow Healing Plaza
- 🏛️ Organizer
- Yeongdong Festival Tourism Foundation, Nangye Commemorative Conference · Yeongdong-gun
- ☎️ Contact
- +82-43-745-8917
Overview
The Yeongdong Nangye Korean Traditional Music Festival is an annual performing arts festival dedicated to gugak, Korea’s traditional music and one of Yeongdong-gun’s most treasured cultural assets. The festival also honors the musical legacy of Nangye Park Yeon, one of Korea’s most renowned traditional musicians, while contributing to the preservation and promotion of traditional performing arts. Building on the achievements of the 2025 Yeongdong World Traditional Music & Arts Expo, the 57th festival seeks to introduce gugak, a treasured element of Korea's cultural heritage, to a wider global
Source: Korea Tourism Organization (official English translation, TourAPI).
What happens at Yeongdong Nangye Korean Traditional Music Festival
- Opening & Closing Ceremonies
- Traditional Gugak Performances
- Fusion Gugak Performances
- World Folk Dance Performances
- Children’s Performances
Official programme as registered with the Korea Tourism Organization. Details can change — check with the organizer before you go.
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📊 How busy this area gets
Visitor-volume index for 영동군, 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 — 1.31
The index covers the whole district, not the festival ground itself. Use it to pick a month, not a day. · Aug 1.09 / Oct 1.31
🅿️ 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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Rainbow Healing Center레인보우 힐링센터 Attraction0.1 km straight · walkable
When developing the Yeongdong Rainbow Healing Tourist Site, the Rainbow Healing Square was envisioned as a venue for four major festivals held in Yeongdong-gun. Later,…
Korean address for map apps충청북도 영동군 영동읍 영동힐링로 95 -
Yeongdong Wine Tunnel영동 와인터널 Attraction0.6 km straight · walkable
Yeongdong Wine Tunnel is a 420 m-long tunnel within the Rainbow Healing Tourist Site. It was built as a wine storage because caves present ideal conditions for wine…
Korean address for map apps충청북도 영동군 영동읍 영동힐링로 30
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Taking the trip home
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