2026 Board Game Festa (Season 2)
Nov 21 – Nov 22, 2026 · Seoul
Overview
'Board Game Festa' is a board game experience expo supported by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and co-organized by the Seoul Business Agency and the Korea Board Game Industry Association. It was held as the 'Seoul Board Game Festa' from 2015, and since 2022 it has been hosted and organized under the name 'Board Game Festa' by the Korea Board Game Industry Association. It is a festival-style board game experience event created to promote board games—a globally popular culture of family play and education—offering visitors board game experiences, board game competitions, and events to spread the unique enjoyment of board games. Together with BoardGameCon, held with support from the Korea Creative Content Agency, it is widely known to the public as a representative board game experience event, and the organizers are planning to continue the event with the goal of holding it at least twice a year to help invigorate the board game industry.
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