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Yeongju Punggi Insam Festival
- 📅 Dates
- Oct 3, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026
- 📍 Location
- 240-1, Seongnae-ri, Punggi-eup, Yeongju-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do
- 🎫 Admission
- Free
- 🕘 Hours
- 10:00-22:00
- 🎪 Venue
- Punggi Insam Culture Pop-up Park
- 🏛️ Organizer
- Yeongju Punggi Insam Festival Organizing Committee
- ☎️ Contact
- +82-54-630-8706
⚠️ 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.*Ginseng is a well-known traditional Korean medicinal herb. High quality ginseng in Korea is mostly produced in Punggi, a region in Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and the place where the Punggi Ginseng Festival takes place. The festival features health-related exhibits and offers opportunities to taste healthy ginseng dishes at the ginseng cooking exhibition. Visitors can also participate in Punggi ginseng-related interesting activities such as making Punggi ginseng wine a
Source: Korea Tourism Organization (official English translation, TourAPI).
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🅿️ 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.
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🎪 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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National Center for Forest Therapy국립산림치유원 Attractionapprox. 5.9 km · ~11 min by car
The National Center for Forest Therapy is a forest-themed well-being complex created to promote public health and quality of life by leveraging the abundant forest…
Korean address for map apps경상북도 영주시 봉현면 테라피로 209 -
Sosuseowon Confucian Academy영주 소수서원 Attractionapprox. 9.4 km · ~12 min by car
Sosuseowon Confucian Academy is situated at the foothills of Sobaeksan Mountain. Sosuseowon was the first to receive a royal charter as a private Confucian academy along…
Korean address for map apps경상북도 영주시 순흥면 소백로 2740 -
Seonbichon Village선비촌 Attractionapprox. 10.1 km · ~13 min by car
Seonbichon Village in Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the cradle of Korean Confucianism, is where the spirit and cultural heritage of Korea’s classical scholars are…
Korean address for map apps경상북도 영주시 순흥면 소백로 2796 -
Huibangsa Temple (Yeongju)희방사(영주 Attractionapprox. 10.0 km · ~15 min by car
Huibangsa Temple is a temple located at an altitude of 850 meters in a valley south of Yeonhwabong Peak within Sobaeksan National Park. Founded in 643, it preserves the…
Korean address for map apps경상북도 영주시 풍기읍 수철리 -
Yeongju Modern History & Culture Street영주근대역사문화거리 Attractionapprox. 11.2 km · ~16 min by car
Yeongju Modern History and Culture Street serves as a historical and cultural hub, encapsulating the life and times of early twentieth-century Yeongju. The street is…
Korean address for map apps경상북도 영주시 영주동, 광복로 일원
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Taking the trip home
A small Korean brand called kory puts city names on everyday things — hair rollers, hair ties, claw clips, scarves.
We help make kory, so this is not a paid placement — but it is a link we have an interest in. That is why it sits here at the bottom and nowhere else. Product pages and the shop home are in English; a few other pages there are still Korean only.