Leisure Programmes in Seoul

There are various types of festivals and events in Seoul. People would come to Seoul to celebrate or enjoy the moment in Seoul with the various types of festivals and events they celebrated.

For the next two years, the campaign for the Visit Korea 2010-2012 has specify and listed the events and festivals in Korea. So as to let people observe and letting them  know the events and festivals that they can celebrate to it.

These are three events listed below:

 

WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL SEOUL 2010

It refers to a city that is able to enhance its citizens’ quality of life and develop its economy and culture via the utilization of superior designs. In order to highlight the importance of the design in the development of the economic, social and cultural life of cities, the Committee will host the International WDC Competition Biennale.

 

IAAF World Championships Daegu 2011

This events is a very peaceful of coexistence and wealth of the mainland that has been in the common of dream of all people's around the world.

EXPO 2012 YEOSU KOREA

It is a dream of all people's around the world to come as one united and it will be realized in the Yeosu in 2012. 

There are also various types of festivals that are coming up in the future in Seoul. As these are the festivals that will be held for the next two years in Seoul.

Jeju Olle Walking Festival

      Olle is a local Jeju dialect which originally used to refer to the narrow path between the street and one’s doorstep. Later, this word came to mean the series of coastal walking paths in Jeju-do Island.

6th Busan International Fireworks Festival

Since its first event held as a great multimedia marine show to celebrate the 2005 APEC Summit Meeting, the festival has grown into one of the largest fireworks shows in the region watched by over 1.3 million people every year.

Korea Food Festival

Ride the Korean Waves! Feast on Korean Flavors!
Festivals are everywhere in October in Jeonju, the land of style and arts. Welcome to Jeonju in October. 

Hallyu Dream Festival

The ‘Korean Wave’ is an inclusive term for all cultural products from Korea including fashion, performance, drama and cuisine. Starting in Japan, China and Vietnam, the Korean Wave is now spreading throughout the whole world.

World Peace Festival

Korea is the only divided country in the world. The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has emerged from the ashes of the Korean War and has now become a symbol of peace and life.

Environment Festival

The oil spill in Taean had reminded us of the enormous resources and efforts required to restore contaminated natural environment. Thanks to the joint effort by the government, municipal council and the general public, Taean is once again thriving with wild life.

There are also festivals in Seoul that people will be celebrating as these festivals are mainly on some occasions of the month in Seoul.

Seoul Festivals in 2010 / 2011

SEOLLAL

Lunar New Year's Day. An ancestral service that present before a ritual table and at ancestors' graves. New Year's greetings are when it is exchanged by family, relatives, friends and neighbors.

DAEBOREUM

This is the first in full moon of the year. From ranging the Silla period, people celebrated on the belief that the first full moon would ward off their evil spirits and bad lucks.

JUNGHWAJEOL

It is a day to celebrate the start of the farming seasons of the month.

SAMJINNAL

Migrant swallows return from the south in the spring.

HANSIK

It is also called Cheongmyeong. Visit to the ancestral graves. The use of the fire as it is not permitted and people eat cold food.

DANO

It is believed that the positive energy of heaven and earth is the strongest on this day. Prayers are made for a good harvest.

YUDU

It is to believed that eastward-flowing water creates positive energy, as people wash their hair in the streams that run in that direction.

CHILSEOK

It is a folk belief that the two love stars, Altair and Vega meet on this day on a bridge made by magipes over the Milky Way. The lovers; tears of joy and sadness result in rain.

BAEKJUNG

Baekjung refers to the procurement of different kinds of 100 grains and seeds in the middle of the hot summer. People offered the grains to Buddha and took a day off with food and games.

CHUSEOK

It also called the Hangawi, as this is the one of Korea's biggest holidays of the month. Giving thanks for the year's harvest, people offer their ancestors the season's freshest foods.

JUNGYANGIEOL

It is called the Junggu. On this particular day, people, the literatiin, enjoyed the feeling of autumn by admining chrysanthemums and painting and composing poems on the theme of autumn.

SEOTDAL GEUMEUM

This is on the New Year's Eve where people bid farewell to the old year with their ancestors.