Tradition & cultureAnseong, Gyeonggi-do

Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Festival 2024 in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

안성맞춤 남사당 바우덕이 축제 2024

Oct2024
3 –6
Thu–Sun
Past edition

3 October 2024 to 6 October 2024

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2024 festival offered. The current information is on the Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Festival page (Expected Oct 2027).

Venue this year. Anseong Machum Land and Anseong Stream.

Dates3–6 Oct 2024
VenueAnseong Machum Land and Anseong Stream경기도 안성시 보개면 남사당로 198
AdmissionFree entry to the grounds and stages (KTO, 2026). The namsadang theme show in the indoor hall is paid (festival price not published; the troupe's regular weekend show there costs ₩12,000 for adults), and food and market goods cost extra.
Next edition2025: 9–12 Oct 2025

Program

  • 2 Octmemorial rite and eve event
  • Theme'Baudeogi, Joseon's first female idol, walks the rope that links the world'
  • Namsadang shows across the grounds, fusion performances and CIOFF world folk performances by troupes from six countries
  • Recreated Anseong old market, an overseas folk park, plate-spinning and tightrope experiences, and the Anseong Culture Festa
  • 6 Octclosing ceremony with a CIOFF gala, a concert by Baek Ji-young and a night drone show

Notes on the 2024 edition

About 568,000 visitors (491,000 at Anseong Machum Land and 77,000 along Anseong Stream), up 3% on 2023; specialty-market sales of ₩2.26 billion; about 48,000 visitors came by public transport.

About the festival

The Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Festival (안성맞춤 남사당 바우덕이 축제) is a free four-day festival of namsadang folk performance (pungmul drumming, tightrope walking, bowl spinning, masks and puppets) with visiting folk troupes from abroad, held every early October since 2001 in Anseong Machum Land and along Anseong Stream in Anseong, Gyeonggi-do. The 2026 edition ran 2–5 October, 10:00–21:00; the 2027 dates are not announced, but early October is expected. Entry is free (the indoor-hall show is paid); from Seoul, take an express bus of about an hour to Anseong, then a festival shuttle or a taxi.

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Anseong Namsadang Baudeogi Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

Facts checked
19 October 2026, against the sources listed below.

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