Best Place to visit in Seoul South Korea map: Yeouido 2017 Reddish Bloom Festival

By Korea.net Honorary Reporter Williams Kyei

Photos = Williams Kyei

If you lot convey lived inwards Korea for to a greater extent than than a year, you lot would realize that things are seasonal too that trends come upwards too go. As such, if you lot immature adult woman a detail seasonal trend, you'll convey to hold off until adjacent year, biting your fingers for having wasted the opportunity.

One such beautiful 2nd is the cherry blossom flavour too the festivals that are held across the length too breadth of Korea, ushering inwards the spring. It's is the fourth dimension of twelvemonth when flowers bloom from the dried, wintertime trees. While it begins inwards belatedly March inwards some southern cities, it unremarkably starts inwards Apr for most places simply about the working capital missive of the alphabet of Seoul.

Cherry blossoms are refreshing, dazzling too charming. Families, friends, students too revelers from all walks of life throng to these festivals to capture the beautiful blooms.

As an African living inwards Korea, I hatred winter, too thus I was keenly looking frontwards to the start of spring, which later on leads to my favorite flavour of the year, summer. Meanwhile, I haven't genuinely attended an actual cherry blossom festival since I came to Korea, too thus this was a not-to-miss effect for me.

I didn’t desire to beam alongside envy equally I drooled over all the wonderful photos shared on social media past times my friends. I had to alive too relive the 2017 cherry blossoms first-hand. Call this positive peer pressure.

Therefore, I went out alongside a friend concluding Fri to relish inwards the Yeouido Spring Flower Festival 2017, which was beingness held from Apr 1 to ix along the Hangang River Park inwards Yeouido.

The festival is organized past times the Yeongdeungpo-gu District Government too it’s considered to locomote 1 of the overstep cherry blossom festivals inwards Seoul. It was the most talked nigh festival inwards town too on social media. It showcased mini concerts, flowery displays, buskers, cultural activities too more.

This is how I experienced this year’s cherry blossom boundary festival inwards Yeouido.

The trail began at Yeouinaru Station nigh the National Assembly. We came out of the station too it was all white too pinkish flowers alongside a barrage of people walking to too fro, either taking selfies or snapping pics of the flowers.

The street was crowded alongside people who came out to savour the cherry blossoms.

I captured some of the flowers on a branch against the bright, sunny bluish skies.

Even popcorn sales along the street were cherry blossom-themed.

As a gourmand for Korean street food, it was bliss to honor some of my favorite delicacies beingness served along the walking trails. From sausages, tteobokki, silkworm larvae, kebabs too smoked squid to egg buns, taking bites of these snacks made me savour the festival fifty-fifty more.

Tteobokki is ever a delicious snack.

Grilled chicken kebabs are a hitting everywhere.

Sausages, chicken balls and tteobokki rolls are available at the Yeouido cherry blossom festival.

There were tons of people going nigh their trouble organisation equally nosotros walked farther toward the main venue of the festival.

The activities expanse had tents where revelers could endeavor on some traditional Hanbok attire, play a game or pose for a photo inwards a booth.

This small stage behind the National Assembly held a traditional music concert. The tunes from the 12-stringed zither, or gayageum, perfectly suited the atmosphere.