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Yangdong Back to the Jang (BACK TO THE Jang) Hongtak Festa

양동 백투더 장(BACK TO THE 장) 홍탁페스타 · Name and venue are machine-translated by Papago. Fees are in the original Korean.

D-9

Dates: 2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-14
Venue: 238 Cheonbyeonjwa-ro, Seo-gu, Gwangju, Jeollanam-do (Yang-dong)View map ›
Contact: 062-413-1271

Western visitors (forecast)(est.)

Plenty

2% more than usual this time last year

Whole-Western stats, not the festival grounds

Expected crowds by date

11/12 (Thu)Plenty+4% vs usual

11/13 (Fri)Quiet+1% vs usual

11/14 (Sat)Quiet+2% vs usual

Compares local visitors on the same weekday last year with usual levels

· Same weekdays last year (11-13 ~ 11-15): average daily non-resident & foreign visitors to Western 183K people
· Usual (same weekdays in the 4 weeks before) daily average 179K people → 1.02×
· Measured for the whole district, so small festivals may show little change.

Quiet
~+5%

Plenty
~+20%

Moderate
~+50%

Crowded
~+100%

Very crowded
+100%+

Source: KTO DataLab (mobile visitors, daily by district)

Plenty is set by visitor growth versus usual.