Nature & seasonsGurye, Jeollanam-do

Gurye Sansuyu Flower Festival 2024 in Gurye, Jeollanam-do, South Korea

구례산수유꽃축제 2024

Mar2024
9 –17
Sat–Sun
Past edition

9 March 2024 to 17 March 2024

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2024 festival offered. The current information is on the Gurye Sansuyu Flower Festival page (Expected Mar 2027).

Dates9–17 Mar 2024
VenueJirisan Hot Spring Tourist Site and Sansuyu Culture Center, Sandong-myeon전라남도 구례군 산동면 상관1길 45
AdmissionFree: the festival grounds and the flower paths through the villages cost nothing (KTO lists the festival as free). Some hands-on programmes, food and local products are paid.
Previous edition2023: 11–19 Mar 2023
Next edition2025: 15–23 Mar 2025

Program

  • Theme'In search of eternal love' (영원한 사랑을 찾아서)
  • Harvest prayer ritual and opening performance
  • Sansuyu fruit-shelling contest and sansuyu flower-path walk
  • Free sansuyu and traditional tea tasting, rice-cake pounding, children's archery
  • Trot concerts by local singers, busking and a nongak farmers' music festival

Notes on the 2024 edition

25th edition.

About the festival

The Gurye Sansuyu Flower Festival is a free nine-day spring festival in the sansuyu (cornelian cherry) villages of Sandong-myeon, Gurye, Jeollanam-do, where more than 110,000 trees turn the foot of Jirisan yellow. The 27th edition ran 14–22 March 2026 around the Jirisan Hot Spring Tourist Site; the 28th is expected in mid-March 2027, with dates set by the bloom and not yet announced. Entry is free; the nearest KTX station is Guryegu, about 30 minutes away by taxi.

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Gurye Sansuyu Flower Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

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

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