Seoul(Seodaemun-gu) , Seoul City Hall・Gwanghwamun

NANTA is a top non-verbal cooking performance show about four chefs who must prepare a wedding banquet in just one hour. The plot is depicted through various genres of performances, including percussion that uses kitchen utensils to make beats based on traditional rhythms of samulnori (traditional percussion quartet). The entire show has no spoken dialogue, yet plenty of comedy and romance, too.Meanwhile, since its debut in October 1997, NANTA (also known as Cookin') has earned international acclaim, being staged on Broadway and at other famous venues worldwide.*NoteDue to the MERS outbreak, some performances will be discontinued from June 15 to July 31, 2015.


Gyeonggi-do(Yongin-si) , Yongin

Everland's "Seollal Folk Hanmadang Festival" is a festival held to celebrate Seollal (Lunar New Year) holidays. The event offers a wide range of experience activities and traditional performances for visitors of all ages.


Busan(Haeundae-gu)

Haeundae Dalmaji Hot Spring Festival is a folk festival taking place in the Haeundae Beach area to celebrate Jeongwol Daeboreum, the first full moon of the lunar calendar. The day before the event, the citizens come together to make a daljip, a large pile of pine wood, which they will burn the following day to send up their wishes for a happy and healthy new year.


Gyeonggi-do(Bucheon-si) , Bucheon

The Bucheon International Comic Festival became the top Asian comic festival, presenting world comic trends and presenting a vision for Korean comics. Various programs, such as exhibits, an international comic fair, conferences, a world children’s cartoonist competition, and other various hands-on programs are available for all visitors. This festival was praised as a successful festival that developed the foundation of the comic industry and extended opportunities for sharing culture and arts, as well as improving the regional industry and making its mark as an international comic city.


Seoul(Jung-gu)

Jeongdong Theater is Korea's premier cultural venue for traditional performing arts, and is a restoration of Wongaksa, the first modern Korean theater. The theater has prepared and showcased high-quality traditional performing arts all over the world though their original productions "Miso" and "YOULL." In 2017, Jeongdong Theater has planned a variety of traditional performances including pansori, a musical storytelling tradition inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, live bands made up of nine traditional instruments, and fan dancing.


Seoul(Jung-gu)

Seoul Photo Festival is held with the participation of citizens of Seoul-si, gathering their individual pictures to present the memory of picnic areas and reminding us of what family means. This special exhibition shows a part of leisure culture in the modern era, classified by period and location.


Jeollabuk-do(Jeonju-si)

The Jeonju International Film Festival, an exciting combination of fun and film, is a fantastic 9-day spring outing filled with a wide range of events and movies. The celebration is held in ‘Movie Street’ (Gosa-dong, Jeonju-si), a street packed with movie theaters. During the festivities in April, the streets come to life with the contagious energy and zestful enthusiasm of film aficionados. Come and join in the fun this spring during the Jeonju movie fiesta!


Gyeonggi-do(Paju-si) , Paju(Heyri Art valley)

Paju Book City is a leading publishing and cultural hub in Korea, established in 2011, when it began establishing a street of bookstores to transform itself from a place of publication to a place for enjoying book culture. A total of 42 bookstores opened within the book city's first year. In view of participating in international activities, the city joined the International Organization of Booktowns (IOB) in June 2012. The IOB is an organization of 16 book towns in 13 countries.The Paju Booksori Festival is the largest book festival in Asia. Launched in the fall of 2011, the festival draws around 100 publishers, and leading organizations related to the publishing industry, books, education, and culture.


Seoul(Jongno-gu) , Insadong・Jongnon

Bukchon Music Festival aims to showcase various contemporary music genres including world music, jazz, classic, and indie music, centered on Korean traditional music in the area of Bukchon in Seoul. The festival is a music festival carrying out varied artistic attempts to break the barrier between traditional and contemporary art. About 20 artistic teams from different genres will play their love songs along the streets of Bukchon, so passersby can enjoy listening to the music for free if they like the song. More information on the programs is available at the homepage.


Gyeonggi-do(Bucheon-si) , Bucheon

Bucheon International Animation Festival is held under in areas near Korea Manhwa Museum.The festival features various genre of animation including feature-length, short-length, student, TV & commissioned, online. Along with competitive animation film festival, it aims to develop into a film festival to promote the growth of professional animation festival in Asia. Visitors can enjoy various programs, and the festival opens with a screening the most popular animation of the year.