Seoul Lantern Festival 2025 Dates November. Every year, on the weekend before buddha’s birthday, a phenomenal celebration takes place in. Seoul lantern festival is held every november under different themes each year with brightly colored lanterns lighting up cheonggye plaza and the path along cheonggyecheon stream.

This year, 2024, the lotus lantern festival in seoul will take place from may 10 to may 12, 2024. The festival first started in celebration of the 2009 visit korea year and has since grown into seoul’s main winter cultural tourist festival sought out by over 2.5 million spectators annually.