May has already passed and the gentle breezes mixed with the sweet scent of roses, informing that an exciting flower festival season in South Korea is about to begin!
Today with Your Favorite K-Cult, let’s explore the TOP 6 most beatiful rose festivals taking place in May 2024. Hope you and your friends will have a perfect date during this beautiful season!
Seoul Rose Festival 2024
The Seoul Flower Festival is one of South Korea’s largest event, attracting millions of visitors each year. The festival brings together thousands of rose species of all colors and shapes, creating an extremely brilliant and impressive scene.
- Time: from 18 to May 25, 2024
- Address: Jungnang Flower Park, 375 Muk-dong, Jungnang-gu, Seoul Korea
Although the festival time has passed, the roses here will still bloom until the beginning of June, or even until the middle of the month. Don’t miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the colorful space, being filled with these beautiful roses!
In 2023, Seoul Rose Festival has attracted more than 2 million and 6 hundred visitors in Seoul, Korea. It is expected that this year, this festival will open to welcome more than 1 million visitors or more when the weather in Korea in Spring is at its most beautiful.
From May 25 onwards, right at the location of Seoul Rose Festival 2024, the 2024 Artist Festival also take place with amazing performances. Remember to visit this place during Spring-Summer season since it is the best month to visit Korea!
International Rose Festival Gokseong
Gokseong International Flower Festival is held at Gokseong Park, which owns more than 800 different species of roses and more than thousands of fully bloomed roses. The festival has many interesting activities such as flower parade, flower exhibition, beauty pageant, etc.
- Time: From May 17 to 26, 2024
- Address: Gokseong Train Village Rose Park, No. 256-16 Gokseong-gun, Jeollanam-do Province
Gokseong is known as a famous train village in Jeollanam-do province, Korea. Coming to the flower festival during the rose season here, in addition to immersing yourself in the space filled with roses, you can also participate in other fun activities, such as cycling on the tracks.
n addition, at Gokseong, Trot music performances (a music genre in Korea similar to Country Music) will also be conducted throughout the festival space. Guaranteed you will encounter an extremely cute scene: Ajushi and ajumma dancing to Trot music just like in Korean movies.
Seoul Grand Park 2024 Rose Garden Festival
Seoul Grand Park is the largest park in Seoul, possessing many brilliant flower gardens, including a rose garden with more than 10,000 branches of 200 different species. Korean tourists coming here can visit the flower garden, take photos, have a picnic…
- Time: From May 24 to June 2
- Address: Theme Garden Grand Seoul Park, San 56-1, Makgye-dong, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
Did you know an interesting thing that although the name of this park is Seoul Grand Park, it is located in Gyeonggi province – the province with the largest population in South Korea and the province surrounding the Korean capital Seoul. Coming here, in addition to seeing the flowers, you can also go to Seoul Land – Amusement park with thrilling games or visit the extremely large zoo here!
The entrance fee to the rose garden will be about 2,000 won (~ 38,000 VND) for 1 person. In addition, you should budget to take the bus within this extremely fun area. Other activities such as taking the cable car, visiting the zoo, and tickets to Seoul Land all have a complete ticket counter or you can buy them individually if needed!
To get to Seoul Grand Park, you just need to take subway line 4 (blue) to Seoul Grand Park station and exit the station by exit 2.
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Everland Amusement Park
Everland Amusement Park is the largest theme park in South Korea, the park owns many attractive entertainment areas, including the Rose Garden with more than 3,000 rose branches of 50 different species. Everland Amusement park flower garden is designed in a youthful and dynamic style, creating a joyful and extremely vibrant space.
- Time: From May 24 to June 2, 2024
- Address: Everland, 199 Everland-ro, Pogog-eup, Cheoin-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do
Surely we are familiar with the Bao panda family in Everland Amusement Park, including father Lebao, mother Aibao and their 3 daughters: Fubao, Ruibao and Huibao. On Fubao’s eldest sister’s birthday last year, Everland and the staff at the flower garden bred a special flower, and named this flower Fubao Rose!
Come to the flower garden at Everland to immerse yourself in the beauty of Fubao roses and 50 other varieties of roses! To limit the long queues to enter the rose garden, Everland Korea has launched the Garden Pass, with the benefit of having a private gate directly into the rose garden without having to queue too long, this will be the ideal choice. for this peak sightseeing period!
Olympic Park Rose Festival 2024
Olympic Park is where the 1988 Summer Olympics took place, possessing many brilliant flower gardens, including a rose garden with more than 5,000 flower branches of 100 different species. Visitors coming here during May or June – the best month to visit Korea can make a visit to the flower garden and create beautiful memories~
- Time: From May 12 to May 26, 2024
- Location: Rose Plaza, Olympic Park, Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul
You can spend a whole day comfortably visiting Olympic Park in Seoul without spending any money because this rose garden is open to all visitors for free. In addition to the rose garden, the park also has music performances or busking to serve visitors. Choose a beautiful sunny day, a few bottles of drink and snacks are enough for a picnic at this rose garden!
Yeonam-dong Rose Festival
Yeonam-dong Festival is one of the oldest festivals in Korea, taking place on the romantic Yeonam-dong street with rows of brilliant roses. If you are planning a trip to Korea at the end of May, definitely don’t miss the Rose Festival in Yeonnam-dong!
- Time: From mid-May to the first week of June
- Address: Area near Daemyeong Apartment, Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul Korea
Coming to the festival at the flower road in Yeonnam-dong, you will admire the extremely beautiful hedges of blooming roses, forming super beautiful flower walls. After visiting and taking photos here, you can stop by the famous Hongdae area as a shopping and entertainment center for Korean youth to make the trip more complete!
Don’t hesitate to immediately plan a trip to Korea during rose season to treat yourself with the magical world of brilliant roses and beautiful scenery. Surely you will have unforgettable experiences and save the most beautiful moments in these enchanting “rose paradises” during the best moth to visit Korea. K-Cult wishes you a meaningful and memorable flower season!
May a wonderful journey be with you, kimchi🙏
