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Hwaseong Haenggung and Suwon Fortress

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Hwaseong Haenggung and Suwon Fortress is a reviewed autumn destination for an easy foliage walk with nearby food to enjoy before or after your visit.

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Food near this autumn spot

Nearby restaurants for before or after your autumn walk.

Festivals near this autumn spot

Nearby festivals that fit naturally into an autumn day trip.

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Oct 4 – Oct 11

Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival

The Suwon Hwaseong Cultural Festival is Suwon’s representative comprehensive cultural and arts festival, presented with a modern sensibility based on King Jeongjo’s 8-day royal progress to Hwaseong in 1795. The historical moments recorded in the *Wonhaeng Eulmyo Jeongri Uigwe* are brought back to life through performances, parades, hands-on experiences, and citizen participation programs, and unfold around the UNESCO World Heritage Site Suwon Hwaseong Fortress and Hwaseong Haenggung Palace. The representative program, ‘Royal Procession of Crown Prince Jeongjo’s Royal Tomb Visit,’ is the largest royal parade in Korea enjoyed together by citizens and tourists, showing the festival’s grand appeal. In addition, visitors can enjoy traditional culture experiences and participatory programs during the day, and high-quality performance content that harmonizes with Suwon Hwaseong’s beautiful scenery at night, offering domestic and international tourists a special festival experience.

Family-friendly festivals
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do56m
Walk ~1 minBike ~1 minDrive ~3 min
D-30
Sep 19 – Oct 6

Suwon Hwaseong Media Art

Suwon Hwaseong Media Art, which has been held since 2021 against the backdrop of the World Heritage Site Suwon Hwaseong Fortress, ended the 2021-2025 Mancheonmanyeol: Jeongjo’s Dream, Becoming Light season and has been newly planned in 2026 under the theme of ‘Saebit Dongrak (同樂): Suwon Hwaseong (華城), Blooming in Light,’ or ‘Welcoming guests with [Saebit] and enjoying together with [Dongrak].’ As a nighttime festival that realizes a large-scale media art piece expressing, in diverse light, the stories of the people who have passed through the times from the fortress’s construction to the present, it offers visitors abundant sights and activities over an 18-day schedule through the huge media art combining light, video, and performance around Hwaseomun Gate, as well as various experiential and interactive media art programs at Jangan Park.

Family-friendly festivals
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do542m
Walk ~9 minBike ~3 minDrive ~3 min
Happening now
Apr 18 – Dec 15

Culture Lounge Gyeonggi, Jang

The Gyeonggi-do Culture Lounge 'Gyeonggi, Jang' is a complex cultural space that introduces local content from Gyeonggi-do in one place. The space is structured around hands-on experiences so that visitors can directly experience region-based content. 'Local Radar' is a customized experience program that allows visitors to design a Gyeonggi trip according to their personal tastes. 'Gyeonggido Ceramic Shop' is a space that provides both relaxation and experience through ceramic craft experiences and tea tasting. Overall, it is a complex cultural platform that combines exhibition, experience, and performance functions, and it is characterized by being operated on the basis of visitor participation.

Family-friendly festivals
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do3.7km
Walk ~1 hrBike ~17 minDrive ~11 min
D-44
Oct 3 – Oct 4

Jeongjo Filial Piety Culture Festival

The Jeongjo Filial Piety Culture Festival, held around Jeongjo Hyo Park, is Hwaseong Special City’s representative history and culture festival that combines historical value with family-friendly elements. Visitors can enjoy a variety of performances and traditional hands-on programs, and in particular, Hyeonryungwon Chyeonwon, which reenacts the epic story of King Jeongjo moving the tomb of his father, Prince Sado, to Yungneung in Hwaseong, a place famed as the best geomantic site in Joseon, is a representative program that symbolically shows King Jeongjo’s utmost filial devotion. In addition, on October 4, the King Jeongjo Royal Procession, which reenacts the 1795 Eulmyo Wonhaeng, departs from Dongtan Central Park and unfolds a grand procession, offering a variety of sights where tradition and modernity come together. This festival, held in Hwaseong Special City, the city of filial piety and a perfect site under heaven, will provide a special time for history, culture, and families to share together.

Family-friendly festivals
Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do8.5km
Walk ~2 hr 18 minBike ~40 minDrive ~27 min
D-8
Aug 28 – Aug 30

Saengsaeng Woori Music Festival

The 2026 9th Saengsaeng Woori Music Festival is recognized as an excellent performing arts festival in the Republic of Korea, and brings together top Korean music artists selected from among about 120 support teams nationwide. It is a 'Live & Unplugged' Korean music-based performance held in the cultural hub space of Bongdam-eup, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, and takes place over 3 days at about 10 locations in the Bongdam area.

Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi-do8.7km
Walk ~2 hr 21 minBike ~41 minDrive ~27 min
D-30
Sep 19 – Sep 20

서리풀뮤직페스티벌

서리풀뮤직페스티벌은 매년 9월 개최되는 도심 속 음악 축제로, 2015년 첫선을 보인 후 지난 2025년까지 누적 134만여 명이 찾으며 서초구를 대표하는 브랜드 축제로 확실히 자리매김했다. 일 년에 단 이틀, 10차선 반포대로를 무대로 다채로운 장르의 공연과 감동적인 시민 참여 프로그램을 선보이며 한층 더 풍성하고 확장된 축제로 도약하고 있다. 특히 올해는 ‘Seocho is the Music’이라는 주제 아래 반포대로 본행사를 비롯해, 8월 말부터 한 달 동안 서초구 전역을 아름다운 선율로 물들이는 ‘4주간의 음악 여정’을 통해 더욱 특별한 감동으로 관람객을 맞이한다.

서울특별시 서초구23.3km
Walk ~6 hr 19 minBike ~1 hr 50 minDrive ~1 hr 13 min