Seoul Light Gwanghwamun

Seoul Light Gwanghwamun is Seoul’s premier light festival, featuring a combination of media art with cultural and artistic content. Seoul is a city that transforms like a living organism, shaped by the movements and stories of countless people. Standing at its heart, Gwanghwamun Gate is a symbolic space where Seoul’s history and the lives of its citizens have intertwined over time; it is also the “birthplace of light,” where electricity first entered modern Korea and illuminated the city’s nights. That light did more than simply dispel the darkness; it transformed people’s daily lives and culture, and that momentum continues to this day, shaping the city’s rhythm in every aspect of our lives. Seoul Light Gwanghwamun once again illuminates Seoul’s transformation with light at the very spot where that first light was kindled.

Seoul Light Gwanghwamun turns Gwanghwamun Plaza into an open-air media art showcase, anchored by a large projection show on Gwanghwamun Gate itself, with additional light sculptures along the plaza's water channel and a media art display at the Sejong Center. It is free to attend and runs nightly through the winter holiday season in the historic heart of the city.

The site is in central Seoul, so no intercity travel is needed. Take Seoul Subway Line 5 to Gwanghwamun Station (exit 2) or Line 3 to Gyeongbokgung Station (exit 5), both a short walk from the plaza. City buses running along Sejongno also stop near the site.

1. メインプログラム：光化門メディアファサードショー

2. 関連プログラム：光化門広場運水大通路光造形作品、世宗パビリオンメディアアート

3. 消費者参加プログラム：日月五峰図願いの壁、ソウルの息づく一日、ヘチキャラクターおよび鵲虎図ARプログラムなど