Busan Fireworks Festival

The Busan Fireworks Festival is Korea's leading maritime multimedia fireworks festival, staged around Gwangalli Beach and Gwangandaegyo Bridge. It began as a celebratory fireworks show for the 2005 APEC summit and marks its 21st anniversary this year as one of Busan's signature autumn cultural events. Drawing on the bridge's special lighting and large-scale staging systems, the festival presents a spectacular over-the-sea multimedia show where music and fireworks come together. Its original production techniques, which make the most of Gwangalli's seaside setting after dark, and its massive fireworks launches have established the event as a global festival that draws huge crowds of Korean and international visitors every year. For its 21st edition, the show promises to adorn Busan's night sky with even more refined storytelling and maritime fireworks displays.