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Pets will also show off their hanbok style at Seoul’s Jongno Hanbok Festival

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

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  • Seoul’s Jongno District will hold its 11th hanbok festival on the 11th and 12th under the theme “Wearing Our Music in Our Traditional Dress.”
  • The program includes an opening parade, traditional performances and a hanbok contest featuring 14 finalist teams, including six teams with pets.
  • Exhibitions at Gwanghwamun Square will present modern reinterpretations of hanbok and traditional dance.

Seoul’s Jongno District will hold the 2026 Jongno Hanbok Festival around Gwanghwamun Square on the 11th and 12th. The festival, launched in 2016, will enter its 11th edition under the theme “Wearing Our Music in Our Traditional Dress.”

The opening day will feature a parade with about 80 district residents and the Seoul Children’s Chwitae Traditional Band. Traditional performances will include orchestral Korean music by the Blind Traditional Arts Group and stages of traditional entertainment such as beokku dance and samul pan gut.

The second day will bring the hanbok fashion contest and awards ceremony. Fourteen teams reached the final after 114 teams took part in preliminary rounds. Eight members of the general public will appear on stage, along with six teams paired with pets dressed in hanbok.

Exhibitions will run at Gwanghwamun Square throughout the two-day festival. “Hanbok Next” will show clothing that reinterprets hanbok in a modern style, while “Hanbok Fluttering” will feature traditional dance.

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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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