Do fireworks run every day of a multi-day festival?

Usually not. Even festivals spanning several days often reserve fireworks for a single opening or closing event — the Guri Canola Festival, for instance, only includes fireworks on its closing day. Check the exact date before you plan around the festival's full run.

Do fireworks get canceled in bad weather?

Timing can shift or the show can be canceled depending on conditions, especially for marine fireworks shows, which are sensitive to wind. Check the festival's official channel the morning of your visit.

How do I find a good spot to watch from?

Viewing areas and traffic control differ by city and by year. Larger festivals often reroute traffic and run shuttle buses that aren't normal service, so plan both your arrival route and how you'll get home afterward.

10 Korean Fireworks Festivals With a Full Day Program

Fireworks Are the Finale — 10 Festivals Worth the Whole Day

From cherry blossoms to canola fields to naval history reenactments, these ten regional festivals build a full day before the fireworks start.

Fireworks last a few minutes, but the festivals around them fill an entire day. Jinhae gives you a walk down its cherry blossom paths, Yeosu stages a historical parade, Guri surrounds you with canola fields — and only then do the fireworks begin. This list prioritizes festivals with a real daytime program over shows judged purely by fireworks size, so the travel time is worth it either way.

Here are ten festivals, from the Guri Canola Festival to the Unjeong Lake Park Fireworks Festival, each with its daytime draw, fireworks timing, venue address, and organizer. Schedules and programs shift from year to year, though, so before booking travel, check the current edition's official program for the exact fireworks date.

Guri Canola Festival Fireworks Show

The canola fields along the Han River are the main event here, with fireworks as the closing act. It runs May 9–11, 2025, at Guri Hangang Citizens' Park, with the fireworks show folded into the closing ceremony from 7:00 to 9:30 PM on May 11. Venue: 249 Cosmos-gil 14beon-gil, Guri, Gyeonggi. Organized by Guri City and the Guri Cultural Center. Since fireworks run only on the closing day, double-check the date on the official schedule before planning your trip.

Jinhae Gunhangje Marine Fireworks Show

Walk the cherry blossom paths by day, then watch fireworks over open water at night. It runs March 27 to April 5, 2026, off Jinhaeru and around Jinhae, with exact fireworks timing to be confirmed in the official program. Venue: 150 Jinhui-ro, Jinhae-gu, Changwon, Gyeongnam. Organized by Changwon City and the Chungmugong Commemoration Committee. Peak bloom and the fireworks date don't always line up, so check both.