Tradition & cultureHapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do

Tripitaka Koreana Cultural Festival 2025 in Hapcheon, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea

대장경기록문화축제 2025

Oct – Nov2025
24 –2
Fri–Sun
Past edition

24 October 2025 to 2 November 2025

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2025 festival offered. The current information is on the Tripitaka Koreana Cultural Festival page (9 Oct – 1 Nov 2026).

Venue this year. Around Haeinsa and the Tripitaka Koreana Theme Park.

Dates24 Oct – 2 Nov 2025
VenueTripitaka Koreana Theme Park경상남도 합천군 가야면 가야산로 1160
AdmissionPaid: festival entry is the theme park ticket, and workshops cost extra; the organizer's 2026 listing says only that. No 2026 prices were published. At the park's standard rates (KTO data) an adult ticket costs a few thousand won, and children 6 and under and Hapcheon residents enter free.
Previous edition2024: 23–27 Oct 2024
Next edition2026: 9 Oct – 1 Nov 2026

Program

  • Theme "a thousand years of records become a flower path" (천년의 기록, 꽃길이 되다)
  • Flower installations modelled on the woodblocks, a chrysanthemum arch gate and flower walls; photo zones with the mascots Byeolkkungi and Janggyeongi
  • Chrysanthemum bonsai exhibition in Cheonnyeon-gwan (Millennium Hall)
  • Family workshopsTripitaka notebooks, calligraphy art, key rings and natural soap

Notes on the 2025 edition

Ten days.

About the festival

The Tripitaka Koreana Cultural Festival (대장경기록문화축제) is Hapcheon County's autumn festival at the Tripitaka Koreana Theme Park in Gaya-myeon, Gyeongsangnam-do, about 5 km from Haeinsa Temple, where the 81,258 Tripitaka Koreana woodblocks are kept. The 2026 edition runs 9 October–1 November, 09:00–18:00, with autumn-flower sculptures, chrysanthemum bonsai, Tripitaka exhibitions and family craft workshops. Entry is paid: it is the theme park ticket, which costs a few thousand won (Hapcheon County has not published 2026 prices), and workshops cost extra. From Seoul, take the KTX to Dongdaegu (₩39,000), then the Haeinsa bus from Daegu Seobu Bus Terminal (56 minutes, ₩9,700).

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Tripitaka Koreana Cultural Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

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

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