2026 Hanbok Culture Week

2026 Hanbok Culture Week is a nationwide hanbok culture event held every year in the third week of October, centered on Hanbok Day (October 21), to promote hanbok—clothing that embodies Korea's beauty and tradition—and to spread the culture of wearing hanbok in everyday life. Now in its ninth year, 2026 Hanbok Culture Week will be held for seven days from October 19 to 25 at more than 410 venues nationwide, including the Open Plaza of the National Museum of Korea. Hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, organized by the Korea Craft and Design Foundation, and sponsored by the Arts Council Korea, the event features programs that showcase the diverse charms of hanbok, including a commemorative ceremony, hanbok fashion shows, exhibitions, performances, hands-on experiences, and academic forums. Through programs connected with various participating venues across the country, the event offers citizens opportunities to see, wear, and enjoy hanbok close to their daily lives, and through programs held at venues both in Korea and abroad, it serves as an occasion for hanbok, a traditional culture, to be carried forward as a culture of today and to exchange with the world.

This nationwide hanbok celebration centres on Hanbok Day (October 21) and is held across more than 410 venues, with the main hub at the National Museum of Korea's Open Plaza in Seoul. Visitors can see a commemorative ceremony, hanbok fashion shows, exhibitions, and performances, plus join hands-on experiences related to traditional Korean dress. It's a rare chance to engage with hanbok as a living, everyday culture rather than just a museum display.

The main venue, the National Museum of Korea's Open Plaza, is in Yongsan-gu and is easily reached by subway via Ichon Station (Jungang Line and Line 4), with a direct underground passage to the museum. Taxis and city buses also serve the area from central Seoul in well under an hour.