October 23, 2026 – October 25, 2026

Songpa-gu's festival for the Hanseong Baekje period — when today's southeastern Seoul was the capital of the Baekje kingdom — returns to Olympic Park from October 23 to 25, 2026, in its 25th edition, with opening and closing performances, experience booths and food markets.

Seoul before it was Seoul

The Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival runs October 23–25, 2026 at Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, hosted by Songpa District in its 25th edition.

Most visitors know Seoul as the Joseon capital of palaces and city walls. Long before that, from the first century BCE, the same river valley was the capital of Baekje — and the earthen fortress walls of Pungnaptoseong and Mongchontoseong, the latter sitting inside Olympic Park itself, are what is left of it. The festival exists because the city’s oldest layer is buried under one of its newest districts.

What is on

Opening and closing performances, a community parade, experience booths and food markets across the park. It is a district festival rather than a tourist production, which is exactly what makes it worth going to — you are in a local crowd, not a queue.

Olympic Park is on Subway Lines 5, 8 and 9, and the park is large enough that the walk between the fortress mound and the festival grounds is part of the day.