Jamunbak Cultural Festival
Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026 · Seoul
The 2026 edition ran Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026. 2027 dates have not been announced yet; this page is updated automatically when the organizer publishes them. Check the official site for the latest.
Other festivals in Seoul
Seoul
Eight Colors, Brilliant
Jun 4 – Dec 31, 2026
From this month through December, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is holding the special exhibition 'Eight Colors, Brilliant: Regions Full of K' on the first floor of Cheong Wa Dae Sarangchae. The exhibition starts from the question, 'What are the roots of the K we talk about?' Through regional content exhibits and media art, it presents in a multifaceted way how Korea's history, culture and arts, and each region's unique cultural assets have carried over into and expanded as K-content. In particular, it focuses on illuminating how the cultural assets accumulated across Korea's various regions have become the foundation of today's K-culture.
Seoul
QUAD, Questions of Theater: <Flames>
Nov 14 – Dec 6, 2026
Twins Jeanne and Simon, who have kept nothing but silence between them for the past five years, are thrown into great confusion upon reading the will of their late mother, Nawal. The will asks them to find the father they had believed was dead and a brother whose existence they never even knew about, and to deliver to them letters she left behind. It also contained her request to be buried without a coffin or a headstone. The siblings set out following their mother's traces, drawing ever closer to her veiled past. And at the end of that past, the siblings come face to face with a shocking truth about their mother's silence.
Seoul
Quad, Questions of Theater: 〈The Train to Xi'an〉
Dec 16 – Dec 27, 2026
On a train racing toward the Lishan Mausoleum in Xi'an, China, Sanggon is filled with anticipation for the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang and the countless terracotta warriors he is about to encounter. As Sanggon recalls the image of Qin Shi Huang, who desired eternity within a finite life, and thinks of the things in his own life he has 'never once fully had,' the train arrives in Xi'an before he knows it. A Korean person with a Chinese mother, a person whose love has never once been fully repaid. Standing before Qin Shi Huang's desire for immortality, what is Sanggon's own desire in life? Sanggon, who has lived his whole life on the 'periphery,' stands before the grandest story of all and looks at himself. Only now, before that immense desire, does he finally look into his own story.
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