MusicGapyeong, Gyeonggi-do

Jarasum Jazz Festival 2025 in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

자라섬재즈페스티벌 2025

Oct2025
17 –19
Fri–Sun
Past edition

17 October 2025 to 19 October 2025

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2025 festival offered. The current information is on the Jarasum Jazz Festival page (9–11 Oct 2027).

Dates17–19 Oct 2025
WeatherOctober average 19/5 °C (67/41 °F), 52 mm of rainMonthly averages, not a forecast: Korea Meteorological Administration climate normals, 1991–2020 (Gapyeong: 1993–2020), Gapyeong station.
VenueJarasum (Jaraseom) island경기도 가평군 가평읍 자라섬로 60
AdmissionChildren of primary-school age and under: Free
Previous edition2024: 18–20 Oct 2024
Next edition2026: 9–11 Oct 2026

Program

  • 41 acts from 17 countries; Hungary as focus country (Dresch Quartet, Miklós Lukács, Bálint Gyémánt Trio)
  • Bill Frisell, Stanley Clarke N4EVER, Ibrahim Maalouf, Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio, Annie & the Caldwells, Marion Rampal
  • Singapore Jazz Association Orchestra collaboration; Korean acts including Lucid Fall and Kim Min-kyu

Prices

ItemPriceNote
Children of primary-school age and underFreeFree (the press reported ‘under 12’); adult prices not stated in the opened source

Notes on the 2025 edition

22nd edition.

About the festival

The Jarasum Jazz Festival is Korea's largest jazz festival, held every October on Jarasum, a river island beside Gapyeong Station about 70 km north-east of Seoul. The 23rd edition ran 9–11 October 2026, and the 24th is set for Saturday 9 to Monday 11 October 2027. In 2026 a 1-day pass cost ₩88,000 in advance (₩99,000 on site) and a 3-day pass ₩198,000. Expect around 40 Korean and international acts (39 invited in 2026; 41 from 17 countries in 2025) on lawns by the Bukhan River.

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Jarasum Jazz Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

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

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