| Dates | 31 Oct – 2 Nov 2025 |
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| Venue | Hancheon Sports Park, Yecheon-eup경상북도 예천군 예천읍 남본리 310-1 |
| Admission | Free entry (KTO listing). Some activities may be paid: past editions charged a small activity fee, part of it refunded as a Yecheon gift voucher. 2026 fees were not in the county's 20 October 2026 announcement. |
| Previous edition | 2024: 3–6 May 2024 |
| Next edition | 2026: 30 Oct – 1 Nov 2026 |
Program
- Bow exhibition hall with Korean and world bows; bow-making by national intangible heritage holder Kim Seong-rak
- Archery, gukgung and AR/VR archery; bow siege battle; bow playground
- Evening concert and fireworks on 31 October; youth dance festival and traditional music festival on 1 November; national song contest on 2 November
- Yecheon Agricultural Festival: Yecheon Apple World Cup tasting vote, Yecheon Chive Festa cooking contest
Notes on the 2025 edition
First edition held jointly with the agricultural festival under the theme 'Yecheon, home of the bow, shoots for an abundant autumn!'. The 2025 festival won a bronze prize at the Pinnacle Awards Korea. No visitor total was published in the articles read.
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.