Welcome Daehakro Festival 2022

  September 30th, 2022

  At last we can break our silence and shout out “It’s show time!” For almost three years of the pandemic we all just have borne staying at home, being silent and no socializing. Since early this year we have started stretching arms and getting ready to go out. September 24th South Korean government lifted the outdoor mask mandate and timely local governments and communities are planning to host festivals across South Korea.

  Here one of big annual festivals of Seoul is taking place in Daehakro. It is Welcome Daehakro Festival.

  Daehakro is another globally famous downtown in Seoul, other than Hongdae and Gangnam. Daehak means a university or a college and ro means a street. Long time ago departments of Seoul National University, the top university of South Korea, were around the street, ever since that it has been named as Daehakro. Most of departments moved to Silimdong later though.

  Welcome Daehakro Festival offers an exciting varied programme, and is especially well known for amazing and fun street parades. Daehakro is a mecca for performing arts in South Korea. There are many small and big theaters in Daehakro and many global famous Korean actors such as Yeongsoo O of Squid Game, the world-wide hitting Netflix series, are from Daehakro. No wonder the festival promotes many good plays and musical performances.

  The festival is hosted by Korea Tourism Organization, Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism, and Korea Performing Art & Tourism Association. It is expected that it can help economic growth of local communities and businesses.

  The website is here. https://www.welcomedaehakro.com/e_main.php They don’t supply only Korean version, also English, Japanese, Chinese versions. You can see the tour map and schedules of Welcome Daehakro Festival, and do ticketing for theatre via the website.  

  Enjoy the time Daehakro, the street of youth!

- How to get Daehakro

  Hyehwa station on Line 4 of Seoul Metro is Daehakro.