Ssokssokdeul-i Festival

Ssokssokdeul-i Festival is a program organized by the National Theater of Korea’s Stage Arts Support Center, designed to make performing arts more accessible in everyday life. Held regularly throughout the year, it offers a variety of performances free of charge, creating greater opportunities for the public to engage with the arts in a relaxed and approachable setting.

The festival takes place at the “Ssok” Experience Theater within the Stage Arts Support Center and features dynamic stages that can be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. Tickets for the performances are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at the on-site information desk starting at 12:00 on the day of the performance. These tickets may close early depending on the number of seats available. With artists presenting distinctive styles across a range of popular genres, it creates a vibrant cultural space where different generations can come together and share the experience.

This is a year-round, free performing-arts series at the National Theater of Korea's Stage Arts Support Center in Paju's Heyri area, aimed at making theatre and performance accessible to a general audience rather than staging a single one-off event. Programming spans popular genres and is pitched at all ages, so it works as a low-cost cultural outing rather than a flagship spectacle. Because it runs continuously from March to December 2026, visitors can often fold it into a broader day trip to Heyri Art Valley.

There is no subway or KTX line to Heyri Art Valley, so the practical options are an intercity bus toward Paju or a taxi/drive, roughly 40-60 minutes from central Seoul depending on traffic and starting point. Since the venue sits inside the Heyri arts district, many visitors pair the trip with walking around its galleries, bookshops, and cafes rather than making a single-purpose journey.