| Dates | Not announced as of 19 October 2026, and not yet confirmed that it will be held. When it has run (or been planned), it has started on a Friday or Saturday in the second half of January for about nine or ten days (20–29 Jan 2023; cancelled 2024 plan 19–28 Jan). It needs Soyang Dam at 183 m or lower and ice about 25 cm thick; it was cancelled in 2024, 2025 and 2026, and in December 2025 the county said it would review a change of venue or alternative programmes. |
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| Venue | Bingeoho (Icefish Lake) on upper Soyang Lake, Bupyeong-ri, Nam-myeon강원특별자치도 인제군 남면 부평리 555-2 (빙어호 일원) |
| Admission | Entry and the ice-fishing field have been free (the last edition held was in 2023). Rides such as sleds, ATVs and the Argo were separate activities whose prices were not published in the sources opened. |
| Previous edition | 2023: 20–29 Jan 2023 |
Notes on the 2027 edition
No 2027 announcement found from Inje County or the Inje County Culture Foundation as of 19 October 2026. Check for a decision in December 2026.
About the festival
The Inje Icefish Festival (인제빙어축제) is a free ice-fishing festival for bingeo, a small icefish, on Bingeoho, a dammed arm of upper Soyang Lake at Bupyeong-ri, Nam-myeon, Inje, Gangwon, about 1 h 45 min by bus from Dong Seoul. Held since 1998, it last ran 20–29 January 2023 and was cancelled in 2024, 2025 and 2026 because Soyang Dam's water was too high for safe ice. No 2027 dates or decision had been announced by 19 October 2026; when it runs it lasts about ten days in the second half of January, and entry and ice fishing have been free.
Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Inje Icefish Festival page, which covers every edition.
Source
Facts checked
19 October 2026, against the sources listed below.