SMAF (KTO) Seocho Music & Art FestivalThe Seocho Music & Art Festival returns this weekend. Admission is free.Now in its fourth edition since launching in 2023, the district-run festival takes place around the Seoul Express Bus Terminal and the Express Terminal-Sebitseom Special Tourism Zone.Saturday's main program, Music Dive, is a live music stage. Sunday's Fashion Dive combines a fashion show with performances, a music-and-fashion format the district is staging for the first time this year.Related programs run alongside the main stages. Touch the Piano is an open stage that any visitor can play. The Traveling Library circulates through the district with curated book selections. The Seocho-Hangang Art Tour is a tour-style exhibition linking Sebitseom and Banpo Hangang Park. (KTO) Janghang Liriope Flower FestivalThe Janghang Liriope Flower Festival runs through Sunday at Songnim Recreational Forest in Seocheon County, South Chungcheong Province. Admission is free.The forest draws about 1 million visitors a year. Some 6 million liriope plants cover 280,000 square meters of pine woodland there, forming the country's largest colony of the purple-flowering perennial. The site sits near the West Sea, where black pines and liriope beds grow together.The opening ceremony features a healing concert and a senior fashion show.Hands-on programs include an ice foot bath, a children's water play area, terrarium diffuser making, doll making and forest cookie baking. Food trucks run by young vendors operate on site. Dongdaemun-gu Beer Festival (Dongdaemun-gu Beer Festival) Dongdaemun-gu Beer FestivalThe Dongdaemun-gu Beer Festival runs through Saturday at Jangan 1 Waterside Park in eastern Seoul.The event lines craft breweries and food trucks along a brew-and-food street beside the water. A main stage hosts live performances, including jazz sets, while a separate beer terrace gives visitors a designated area to eat and drink.Additional programming includes a welcome gate with photo zones, hands-on activities and late-night content such as silent film screenings and camping-style lounge areas.The district government runs the festival as its flagship summer event, aimed at drawing residents and visitors to the waterfront during the hottest stretch of the year.Admission is free. Drinks and food are sold separately. (KTO) KIMA WeekKIMA Week, an annual marine leisure festival held in Busan since 2013, runs through August, featuring a mix of beachside events, water sports and a national rowing competition. The festival is co-hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Busan Metropolitan Government and organized by the Korea Marine Leisure Network.The KIMA Beach event zone at Dadaepo operates through Sunday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., offering experience booths, a flea market, indie band performances, film screenings and sunset yoga.Paid marine leisure programs, running through Aug. 31, are offered on-site, including yachting, cruises, surfing and jet boat rides at Dadaepo, Songjeong and Gwangalli. Registration is available through the Holic Gem app.The festival also features a national beach rowing competition at Dadaepo Beach this weekend. (Everland) Everland Midsummer Night Firefly FestivalEverland's Midsummer Night Firefly Festival runs through Aug. 30.The program invites visitors to see thousands of fireflies each night in an indoor forest, an ecology experience the park has run since 2017. Fireflies are considered an indicator of clean environments and are rarely seen in cities.This year the experience is free, and the grounds have been redesigned around a camping theme, with photo zones, lighting and a nature-study area on firefly life cycles.Visitors first enter an indoor space where staff explain how fireflies develop and why they glow, then move to a darkened forest room where the insects light up around them.The firefly experience runs daily from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Lost Valley education center in roughly 15-minute sessions.