Nature & seasonsTaebaek, Gangwon State

Taebaeksan Snow Festival 2024 in Taebaek, Gangwon State, South Korea

태백산눈축제 2024

Jan – Feb2024
26 –4
Fri–Sun
Past edition

26 January 2024 to 4 February 2024

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2024 festival offered. The current information is on the Taebaeksan Snow Festival page (Expected Jan/Feb 2027).

Venue this year. Dangol Plaza area, Taebaeksan National Park

Dates26 Jan – 4 Feb 2024
VenueDangol Plaza, Taebaeksan National Park (plus city-centre sites such as Hwangji Pond in some years)강원특별자치도 태백시 소도동 180
AdmissionFree entry to the grounds and sculpture displays (KTO's listings for 2025 and 2026). Whether sledding, smelt catching or the roasting activities charge a fee was not stated in the 2026 sources.
Previous edition2023: 27–31 Jan 2023
Next edition2025: 7–16 Feb 2025

Program

  • Theme 'Now, Here, Taebaek' (지금, 여기, 태백)
  • More than 20 snow sculptures and student snow sculptures at Dangol Plaza, an igloo café and a giant snow slide
  • 10 shuttle buses; the shuttles on the 1.7 km road between the national park entrance and the Dangol car park were free

Notes on the 2024 edition

31st edition, 10 days. The foundation claimed more than 580,000 visitors, but the national park's counters at 18 points recorded 43,944 (about 7.6% of that); Pressian reported that the foundation's figure came from one part-time student with a hand counter at the old Dangol ticket booth, 10:00–16:00.

About the festival

The Taebaeksan Snow Festival (태백산눈축제) is a free winter festival of large snow sculptures, sledding and a snow-flower hike, held since 1994 around Dangol Plaza in Taebaeksan National Park, Taebaek, Gangwon, about 2 h 50 m by bus from Dong Seoul. The 33rd edition ran 31 January–8 February 2026, 10:00–17:00, with the sculptures lit until 22:00. The 2027 dates had not been announced by 19 October 2026; recent editions point to late January to mid-February 2027.

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

Source

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

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