Seoul Lantern Festival
Venue: Cheonggye Plaza, Supyogyo Bridge
Seoul Lantern Festival is a traditional Korean folk festival to commemorate the birth of the Buddha. Until today, in the first 2 weeks of November, this festival offer different theme each year combining traditionalism and modernism and showcases thousands of expertly crafted coloured lanterns with different shapes, size and characters. This festival is suitable for child and adult to enjoy the night.
Seoul Lantern Festival video
Geumsan Insam Festival
Venue: Ginseng Expo Plaza and Ginseng and Herb Street in Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
Ginseng (insam) is one of the famous crops in Korea and Geumsan is one of the most famous places and the largest producers in Korea for ginseng. In October, Geumsan Insam Festival provides an opportunity for the public to have an experience to try the best ginseng products and health therapies, there are activities available for everyone such as Geumsan traditional folk performance, framers’ concert, ginseng foot spa, ginseng harvesting and many more. It also has a ginseng market where visitors can purchase ginseng products in discounted prices. If you are interested in Korean health and well being culture, this is the perfect festival for you.
Ginseng Market
Ginseng Harvesting
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Naejangsan National Park (Fall Foliage Destinations)
Korea is famous of its fall foliage in Asia which attracted numerous of tourists visiting the country during autumn season especially at the end of October. Naejangsan national park is famous for its maples and it has the finest autumn foliage in Korea.
If you want to explore the gorgeous autumn foliage and like to experience some natural beauties in Korea, Naejangsan National Park is the most suitable place to visit as it is one of the eight most beautiful places in Korea (KNPS, 2009). The national park has native flora such as Muscle tree, Alien oak, Mongolian oak, Giant dogwood, Nutmeg tree, Sloumi, with a total of 919 plants species and 1880 animal species and 12 endangered species such as the Small-eared cat and Yellow-necked marten may suddenly appear around the national park.
Naejangsan National Park is an ideal place for hiking in autumn
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