Hwasun Spring Flower Festival

Held every April in Hwasun, Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City, the Hwasun Spring Flower Festival is a special spring festival where visitors can enjoy brilliant flower paths by day and evocative nighttime scenery after dark. Under the theme "Spring Flower Night Walk", the 2026 Hwasun Spring Flower Festival combines performances, exhibitions and hands-on programs — Betjangi Pocha, the Ant Rest Area, endless fields of yellow rapeseed and a dinosaur that has come back to play — offering different charms by day and by night.

Program

1. Main Program
1) Opening ceremony and 2026 Spring Night Concert / Hwasun Public Stadium main stage
- Opening ceremony and opening celebration show (Gong Jeong-sik Song Festival): April 17 (Fri) 18:00, Kim Yong-im, Miss Kim, Hyeon Jin-woo, Shin Seung-tae, Kim Jae-rong, Yun Yun-seo, Bae Jin-a, Im Geum-nim, Napal Bak and the Trumpeters, etc.
- Spring Night Concert PART 1: April 18 (Sat) 19:00 ~ 20:00, Byeol, Lee Seok-hoon
- Spring Night Concert PART 2: April 19 (Sun) 19:00 ~ 20:00, Seodo Band, Gummy
2) Small-scale performances / Hanium corridor lawn plaza
- 43 performances in total, including 3 on weekdays and 7 on weekends
- Busking, magic, performances by invited local singers, etc.
3) Exhibitions: spring flower theme gardens (Welcome Garden, Flora Garden, Children's Garden, Spring Flower Garden, Ecology Garden), rapeseed fields, spring flower sculptures, succulent and wildflower displays, moving dinosaurs, LED flower pinwheels, etc.
4) Hands-on: Hwasun Wood Culture Experience Center, caricatures and making your own goods, making your own flower soap, handmade hair pins, LED balloon experience, Pixel Story, pottery workshop, Bearbrick and canvas coloring, Aroma Planet, Hwasun Dosun local select shop, making an aquarium, candle flower, making flower pinwheels, flower carriage experience, etc.
5) Sales
- Hwasun signature foods (coal-mine and briquette-ash ice cream, chrysanthemum bread)
- Hwasun flowers (snapdragon, lavender, baby's breath, persian, campanula, carnation, etc.)
- Betjangi Pocha (loach soup, freshwater snail pancake, octopus bibimbap, buckwheat noodles in soy milk, janchi guksu, jokbal, olive chicken, Hanwoo Naju gomtang, seasoned skate, seasoned marsh snail, beef head soup with rice, seasoned jelly, etc.)
- Food trucks (egg bread, chicken skewers, rice cakes, ice cream, coffee and other drinks, hot dogs, churros, snack foods, etc.)
- Sales of local agricultural specialties (shine muscat, cherry tomatoes, gijeongtteok, beef, mushrooms, eggs, cudrania, strawberry mochi, etc.)
2. Supplementary Programs
1) Namsan Park outdoor exhibition / Hwasun Namsan Park and Goindol Traditional Market
- April 17 (Fri) ~ April 26 (Sun), 10 days
2) Hwasun Small Film Festival / Hwasun County Residents Hall
- April 25 (Sat) 14:00 ~ 22:00
3) Wagulwagul Moijang / Hwasun Goindol Traditional Market
- April 25 (Sat) 12:00 ~ 21:00
4) Youth Dance Competition / Hwasun Public Stadium main stage
- April 18 (Sat) 11:00~14:00
5) Feel Pops Orchestra / Hwasun Public Stadium main stage
- April 18 (Sat) 17:00~18:00
6) Multicultural Homeland Dance Festival / Hwasun Public Stadium main stage
- April 19 (Sun) 15:00~17:00
7) Hwasun County Choi Sang-jun Museum of Art special exhibition "Proverbs of Form" / Hwasun County Choi Sang-jun Museum of Art
- March 20 (Fri) ~ June 14 (Sun)