Tradition & cultureYecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do

Yecheon Bow Festival 2024 in Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

예천활축제 2024

May2024
3 –6
Fri–Mon
Past edition

3 May 2024 to 6 May 2024

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2024 festival offered. The current information is on the Yecheon Bow Festival page (30 Oct – 1 Nov 2026).

Dates3–6 May 2024
VenueHancheon Sports Park, Yecheon-eup경상북도 예천군 예천읍 남본리 310-1
AdmissionActivity pass: ₩7,000
Previous edition2023: 4–7 May 2023
Next edition2025: 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025

Program

  • Gukgung and Western archery, field archery, moving-target shooting
  • Bow siege battle with 32 teams a day
  • Boat rides, magic and bubble shows, youth dance contest (5 May), national song contest, fireworks

Prices

ItemPriceNote
Activity pass₩7,000₩5,000 refunded as a Yecheon gift voucher, so activities cost ₩2,000 net

Notes on the 2024 edition

Four days in Children's Day week; an online queue system was used for activities. No visitor total was published.

About the festival

The Yecheon Bow Festival (예천활축제) is a free archery festival at Hancheon Sports Park in Yecheon-eup, Gyeongsangbuk-do, the home county of archers Kim Jin-ho, Yun Ok-hee and Olympic champion Kim Je-deok: you can try Western and traditional Korean archery, a team bow battle and children's bow games. The 2026 edition runs Friday 30 October to Sunday 1 November, 10:00–21:00, together with the Yecheon Agricultural Festival; as of mid-October it was going ahead as planned despite foot-and-mouth cases in Yecheon in 2026. From Seoul, intercity buses link Dong Seoul Terminal and Yecheon in about 2 h 38 m (₩26,800, deluxe).

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

Source

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

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