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Sejong Hangeul Festival 2025 in Sejong, South Korea

세종한글축제 2025

Oct2025
9 –11
Thu–Sat
Past edition

9 October 2025 to 11 October 2025

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

Dates9–11 Oct 2025
VenueSejong Lake Park and Sejong Central Park세종특별자치시 다솜로 216 (세종동)
AdmissionFree. A few programmes are paid (the Hangeul Train in 2026), and some may need booking.
Previous edition2024: 9–12 Oct 2024
Next edition2026: 9–11 Oct 2026

Program

  • Opening with a World Taekwondo demonstration and a drone show
  • KBS 'National Singing Contest', Hangeul Culture City edition (about 10,000 people took part)
  • Hangeul product expo in Central Park
  • Closing concert by the Korean National Symphony Orchestra and fireworks

Notes on the 2025 edition

First year under the name 세종한글축제; theme 세종, 한글을 품다 ("Sejong embraces Hangeul"); 87 programmes and a record 310,000 visitors. The Hangeul International Pre-Biennale ran alongside, 1 September–12 October 2025.

About the festival

The Sejong Hangeul Festival (세종한글축제, called the Sejong Festival until 2024) is Sejong City's free festival of King Sejong and the Korean alphabet, opening every year on Hangeul Day, 9 October, in Sejong Lake Park and Sejong Central Park. The 2026 edition ran 9–11 October, 10:00–21:00, with a Black Eagles air show, the Hangeul Run, drone shows and fireworks. The 2027 edition is expected around 9 October 2027; dates had not been announced as of 19 October 2026. Sejong has no KTX station: take a KTX to Osong (46–53 minutes, ₩16,900) and a BRT bus into the city (about 30 minutes).

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

Source

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

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