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Paju Jangdan Bean Festival 2025 in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

파주장단콩축제 2025

Nov2025
21 –23
Fri–Sun 09:00–17:00 (KTO listing)
Past edition

21 November 2025 to 23 November 2025 · 09:00–17:00 (KTO listing)

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2025 festival offered. The current information is on the Paju Jangdan Bean Festival page (Expected Nov 2026).

Venue this year. Imjingak Tourist Area around the Pyeonghwa Nuri plaza. Free circular shuttle buses ran between Munsan Station (Gyeongui–Jungang Line) and the grounds; the city added temporary car parks and traffic staff.

Dates21–23 Nov 2025
Hours09:00–17:00 (KTO listing)
VenueImjingak Tourist Area (Imjingak Plaza and Pyeonghwa Nuri Park)경기도 파주시 문산읍 임진각로 177
AdmissionEntry: Free
Previous edition2024: 22–24 Nov 2024
Next edition2026: 27–29 November 2026 (Friday–Sunday); Gyeonggi Province's May 2026 magazine gives these dates in a feature credited to Paju City, and the 2026 poster (Paju City and the festival committee), printed in K-Festival magazine's October 2026 issue, gives the same dates at Imjingak Plaza, with a free shuttle bus from Munsan Station, 09:00–17:00. Not yet on Paju City's festival page, which still showed the 2025 edition on 21 October 2026, or in the press.

Program

  • Jangdan Sambaek zoneJangdan bean exhibition hall and a shop selling Jangdan beans traceable through the production-history system
  • Alkongdalkong zoneprocessed Paju farm products, freshly made Jangdan bean tofu and a local food stall run by a Paju civic group
  • Nolkong zonesmall-meju making, flail threshing (keep the beans you thresh), bean popping and kimchi-making; face painting and bean soap making
  • Salkong zonefarmers' traditional market
  • StageJangdan bean song contest for Paju residents, madanggeuk outdoor play and street performances about the bean, youth random-play dance, closing performance
  • Cooking contest using Jangdan beans; bean rice cakes, bean taffy and Jangdan bean chocolate on sale

Prices

ItemPriceNote
EntryFree
Hands-on activities (kimchi-making, face painting, bean soap and others)—Some free, some paid; prices not published in the sources opened

Notes on the 2025 edition

29th edition; theme '청정파주, 장단맞춰 알콩달콩' (roughly 'Clean Paju, in step with Jangdan'). Its seventh year in a row as a Gyeonggi representative tourism festival. No visitor or sales total was found.

About the festival

The Paju Jangdan Bean Festival (파주장단콩축제) is a three-day farmers' festival at the Imjingak Tourist Area in Paju, Gyeonggi-do, beside the Imjin River near the inter-Korean border, where growers sell the new crop of Jangdan soybeans alongside fresh tofu, meju-making and bean threshing. The 29th edition ran 21–23 November 2025, 09:00–17:00. For 2026, a May 2026 feature in Gyeonggi Province's magazine credited to Paju City and the 2026 poster printed in K-Festival magazine's October 2026 issue both give 27–29 November (Friday to Sunday), the poster at Imjingak Plaza, but as of 21 October 2026 the dates were not yet on Paju City's festival page or in the press. Entry is free; take the Gyeongui–Jungang Line to Munsan Station, then the festival shuttle bus.

Transport, booking, crowd and accessibility details are on the main Paju Jangdan Bean Festival page, which covers every edition.

Source

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

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