About

Travel information for the decision before the trip.

Korea Seasons is a practical guide for international visitors planning around a festival, a seasonal day trip or a local event. It focuses on details that are easy to omit from an event listing: what entry really costs, whether the date is confirmed, how long the journey takes and what happens if your card or your Korean is not enough.

Where the facts come from

Dates, admission, location and official links are taken from the Korea Tourism Organization open data service and from each festival’s own published pages, then checked against one another. Where the two disagree, the page says so rather than picking one quietly.

Every festival page carries a CONFIRMED or ESTIMATED badge. Confirmed means an official source has published those dates for this edition. Estimated means the festival usually runs in that window but nobody has announced it yet — book around it at your own risk.

What we leave blank

Some things cannot be looked up: whether a food stall takes a foreign card, how much English you will hear, how long the last bus really takes. We publish the lines we have actually checked and leave the rest off the card rather than guessing. If a detail matters to your trip and it is not here, the organizer page and the 1330 helpline are the two places that can answer it.

We do not translate Korean articles into English and publish the result. Korean-language coverage is written for people who already know how to get there and how to pay. This site is rebuilt around the questions a foreign visitor actually asks first.

Corrections

Festival details change late and often. If something here is wrong, tell us and it gets fixed and re-dated. Pages carry a LAST UPDATED line so you can see how stale the information might be.

Who runs this

Korea Seasons is written and maintained by one person, not a company or a travel agency. There is no newsroom behind it and no staff to call. That is worth knowing when you weigh what you read here: coverage is narrow on purpose, and the site would rather leave a row blank than fill it from a press release.

That person is Ha Doo Sung, who lives in Korea and has been writing about travel for years, in Korean, since before this site existed. Longer-running work: Naver travel blog (info82).

How these pages are made

Festival pages are assembled from the Korea Tourism Organization open data service and each festival’s own published pages, drafted with the help of automated tools, then put through a mechanical check that blocks anything with an unverified date, a missing source or a made-up figure. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so: a person reviews and releases every page. Where a fact could not be confirmed, the row is left blank rather than filled in.

It is not operated by, affiliated with or endorsed by the Korea Tourism Organization or any festival organiser, and it receives no payment from them for coverage. Public data from the Korea Tourism Organization is used under its open data terms.