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K-Wave Dance Festival 2025 in Seoul, South Korea

K-웨이브 댄스 페스티벌 2025

Oct2025
11 –12
Sat–Sun 16:00–21:00
Past edition

11 October 2025 to 12 October 2025 · 16:00–21:00

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2025 festival offered. The current information is on the K-Wave Dance Festival page (Expected Oct 2027).

Venue this year. Waterfront stage in front of Sebitseom, Banpo Hangang Park (2085-14 Olympic-daero, Seocho-gu); city buses 405 and 740 stop at Banpo Hangang Park·Sebitseom, about 73 m away.

Dates11–12 Oct 2025
Hours16:00–21:00
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 edition2024: 4–6 Oct 2024
Next edition2026: 3–4 Oct 2026

Program

  • Invited performances by Korean professional companies and youth groups, including singer Jeong Seung-won, Ahn Eun-me Company, Seoul Ballet Theater, K-Ballet Theater and about 60 Yongin University taekwondo performers
  • Han River busking, a citizens' dance battle, and caricature and face-painting booths
  • About 100 overseas participants from the US, Germany, France, the UK, China and elsewhere

Prices

ItemPriceNote
EntryFree

Notes on the 2025 edition

Third edition, subtitled "Spread the Love" (다양함을 나누다), with the concept "LOVE in 17˚C & 193˚C".

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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