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K-Wave Dance Festival 2024 in Seoul, South Korea

K-웨이브 댄스 페스티벌 2024

Oct2024
4 –6
Fri–Sun 14:00–21:00
Past edition

4 October 2024 to 6 October 2024 · 14:00–21:00

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

Venue this year. Outdoor stage in front of Sebitseom, Banpo Hangang Park.

Dates4–6 Oct 2024
Hours14:00–21:00
WeatherOctober average 20/11 °C (68/51 °F), 52 mm of rainMonthly averages, not a forecast: Korea Meteorological Administration climate normals, 1991–2020, Seoul station.
VenueItaewon-ro, from the Noksapyeong Station intersection to Itaewon Station Exit 1서울특별시 용산구 이태원로 일대 (녹사평역 교차로~이태원역 1번 출구)
AdmissionEntry: Free
Previous edition2023: 21–22 Oct 2023
Next edition2025: 11–12 Oct 2025

Program

  • Opening ceremony and showcases with Honey J (Street Woman Fighter winner), Ahn Eun-me, K-Ballet Theater, LDP and a b-boy team of dancers with disabilities
  • Dancing Dream young dancers' programme with arts middle schools
  • Outdoor dance class, a citizens' dance showcase, media DJ and random play dance, Han River busking
  • Photo booths, face painting and calligraphy

Prices

ItemPriceNote
EntryFree

Notes on the 2024 edition

Second edition. 52 teams and 560 dancers (22 overseas and 30 Korean groups), more than 6,000 visitors over three days and more than 400 citizens in the participation programmes.

About the festival

The K-Wave Dance Festival (K-웨이브 댄스 페스티벌) is a free two-day dance festival in Seoul, run since 2023 by the Korea Contemporary Dance Promotion Association, that mixes ballet, contemporary and traditional dance with K-pop random play, a world dance parade and foreign volunteer performers. The 2026 edition ran on 3–4 October, 12:00–21:00, on a 480 m car-free stretch of Itaewon-ro from the Noksapyeong Station intersection to Itaewon Station Exit 1 (Line 6), and the organisers estimated about 60,000 visitors. The 2027 edition is expected on an October weekend, but its dates and venue have not been announced; the first three editions were held by the river in Banpo Hangang Park.

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main K-Wave Dance Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

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

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