Tradition & cultureGyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do

Silla Culture Festival 2024 in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

신라문화제 2024

Oct2024
11 –13
Fri–Sun 15:00–24:00
Past edition

11 October 2024 to 13 October 2024 · 15:00–24:00

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

Venue this year. Daereungwon and Bonghwangdae. The opening moved from the Woljeonggyo riverside seating, used for the previous two years, to Daereungwon over concerns about the stability of the riverbed ground.

Dates11–13 Oct 2024
Hours15:00–24:00
VenueBonghwangdae tomb park and Woljeonggyo Bridge, central Gyeongju경상북도 경주시 노동동 261
AdmissionFree: KTO lists the festival as free. Food, drink and goods at the night market are paid.
Previous edition2023: 13–15 Oct 2023
Next edition2025: 10–12 Oct 2025

Program

  • 11 Oct, 19:00opening show 'Thousand-Year Flight' (천년비상) at Daereungwon — a Silla-costume fantasy fashion show with about 100 models, drones, fireworks and media facade, in place of Hwabaek Jejeon
  • Silk Road Festaabout 30 street-art troupes (two from abroad) in about 70 performances in seven zones around Bonghwangdae, with a Silla Gochwidae procession and a Silla costume parade; circus, puppetry and magic daily from 15:30
  • 12 Oct, 17:00–22:00Hwarang Hip-Hop Festa at the Naenam intersection (BewhY, Zion.T, BE'O and others)
  • 11–13 Oct, 15:00–24:00Dalbit Nanjang night market at Bonghwangdae Plaza and Geumgwanchong, 41 stalls in three zones, with a new food-truck zone and QR ordering
  • 28–29 SepSilla Art Festival at the Gyeongju Arts Center, opening on 28 Sep at 19:00 with a drone light show

Notes on the 2024 edition

51st edition. A new ESG zone behind Beopjangsa at Bonghwangdae included a pet rest area. Enquiries that year: 054-777-6782~4.

About the festival

The Silla Culture Festival (신라문화제) is Gyeongju's city-wide autumn festival of the Silla kingdom, first held in 1962 and one of Korea's oldest local festivals. The 53rd edition ran 9–11 October 2026 around the Bonghwangdae tomb park and Woljeonggyo Bridge, 15:00–24:00 with free admission; its centrepiece is the Hwabaek Jejeon night show on a floating stage at Woljeonggyo, with drones and fireworks. The 2027 edition is expected on a Friday to Sunday in early or mid-October; take the KTX to Gyeongju Station (about 2 h 15 m from Seoul), then a taxi of about 20 minutes.

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

Source

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

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