Korea by season
The year turns on the calendar.
Korea plans by season: the year-end award season fills the domes, spring brings the marathon and the lanterns, summer is festival season, and autumn brings the biennales and the fireworks. These are the seasons that organise the calendar.
Festive season44 eventsKorea's calendar peaks at the year end: the award shows stack into November and December, KGMA, the Melon Musi...Spring4 eventsSpring opens with the Seoul Marathon in March, runs through cherry blossom season and the Busan short film fes...Cherry blossom2 eventsKorea's blossom front moves north for about three weeks: first bloom in Jeju and Busan in late March, Seoul in...Summer in the city3 eventsSummer is Korea's festival high season outdoors and its announcement season indoors: the big rock and water fe...Autumn28 eventsThe heat breaks and the calendar turns outward again: the biennales in Busan and Gwangju, the run-in to the ye...