Food & drinkYeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do

Yeongdong Grape Festival 2025 in Yeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

영동포도축제 2025

Sep2025
18 –21
Thu–Sun
Past edition

18 September 2025 to 21 September 2025

This edition has ended. It is kept as a record of what the 2025 festival offered. The current information is on the Yeongdong Grape Festival page (Expected Aug/Sep 2027).

Venue this year. Fruit Kingdom Theme Park and surroundings, part of the Rainbow Healing Tourist Site complex.

Dates18–21 Sep 2025
VenueYeongdong Rainbow Healing Tourist Site충청북도 영동군 영동읍 영동힐링로 117
AdmissionFree entry to the festival grounds. Paid extras in 2026: grape stomping ₩2,000 per person and grape picking about ₩10,000 per 2 kg (planned price); fruit and wine are sold by the box or bottle.
Previous edition2024: 29 Aug – 1 Sep 2024
Next edition2026: 27–30 Aug 2026

Program

  • Moved to mid-September and to the Fruit Kingdom Theme Park area because the 2025 Yeongdong World Gugak Expo was using the Rainbow Healing plaza
  • Expanded grape beauty experience hall (massage and sheet-mask sessions), indoor play facilities for families and grape-themed hands-on events
  • Sales of MBA and Shine Muscat grapes and other local farm produce

Prices

ItemPriceNote
Festival admission—Not stated in the 2025 sources opened

Notes on the 2025 edition

20th edition by count (19th in 2024, 21st in 2026). Dates are from the county's pre-festival announcement; no closing report with visitor numbers was found. In Consumer Insight's 2025 domestic travel survey, Yeongdong's wine and grape festival ranked third nationally among regional festivals, up from ninth in 2019.

About the festival

The Yeongdong Grape Festival (영동포도축제) is a four-day harvest festival at the Rainbow Healing Tourist Site in Yeongdong, Chungcheongbuk-do, one of Korea's main grape and wine counties. The 21st edition ran 27–30 August 2026; the 2027 edition is expected in late August but has not been announced. Entry is free, grape stomping cost ₩2,000 and grape picking was planned at ₩10,000 per 2 kg. Yeongdong Station is about 2 h 20 m from Seoul Station by ITX-Saemaeul.

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

Source

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

Report a correction for this edition