| Dates | 18–20 Oct 2024 |
|---|---|
| Venue | Mokpo Modern History and Culture Space (old town)전라남도 목포시 번화로 18 (중앙동2가) |
| Admission | Free. KTO and the culture ministry list the whole event as free. In the daytime, outside the festival, Modern History Museum 2 charges ₩2,000 for adults and ₩1,000 for teenagers. The sources do not say whether the museums open in the evening during the festival. |
| Next edition | 2026: 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 |
Program
- Openingmoving sand art and an original musical by the Mokpo City Choir
- Modern History Museum 2intangible-heritage master singers Park Bang-geum and Ahn Bu-deok with their students, a pumba (itinerant entertainer) play by Kim Si-ra, and traditional dance in the style of the late Lee Mae-bang
- Modern History Museum 1traditional opera and musical 'Cheongchun Yeonga'
- Gyeongdong Cathedralmodern jazz, orchestra and swing-jazz concerts
- Old Mokpo Simsang Elementary School auditorium: national intangible-heritage jade-craft demonstration and exhibition
- Seongok Memorial Hallextended opening on 18–19 October and a modern-history talk concert with historian Jeon Woo-yong on the lawn
- Old Yudal filling-station lot: independent films, photo zone and camping experience; puppet shows and hands-on zone for families
Notes on the 2024 edition
Seventh edition, then called '2024 목포 문화유산 야행', subtitle '100 years of time travel: walking Mokpo's night'. It was the seventh consecutive year of Korea Heritage Service heritage-use funding, organised around eight night themes. Admission and hours were not stated in the sources opened.
About the festival
Mokpo National Heritage Night (목포 국가유산야행) is a free three-evening festival in the old town of Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, where the modern-history district around the Modern History Museums, Gyeongdong Cathedral and the Mokpo-jin fort site stays open after dark with lighting, media art, walking tours, a parade, concerts and a food-truck night market. The 2026 edition, themed on Mokpo's port opening in 1897, runs Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November 2026, 18:00–22:00 each night, with no booking listed. The district is about 15 minutes on foot from Mokpo Station, 2 h 23 m–2 h 50 m by KTX from Yongsan (₩48,000 standard class).
Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Mokpo National Heritage Night page, which covers every edition.
Source
Facts checked
29 October 2026, against the sources listed below.