Official poster for 2026 Korea Stage Festa (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)

By Yoo Yeon Gyeong

The annual Korea Stage Festa runs from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30 under the hosting of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Arts Management Service.

The festival promotes performing arts events in the sector's peak season of October and November like the Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF), Performing Arts Market Seoul (PAMS) and Re:Bound Festival, along with around 1,700 performances across the nation.

SPAF will run from Oct. 8-25 at venues including the National Theater of Korea, Daehakro Theater Quad, and ARKO and Daehakro Arts theaters, presenting 20 top domestic and foreign productions spanning theater, dance, music and multidisciplinary arts.

PAMS, which supports the domestic and overseas distribution of Korean performing arts and international exchange, will showcase from Oct. 13-16 trial performances of nine works at venues at the National Theater of Korea and the ARKO and Daehakro theaters.

Re:Bound, which displays outstanding productions created and made in Seoul, is slated from Oct. 16 to Nov. 14 at Seoul Arts Center's Jayu Small Theater and major performance venues run by the capital's autonomous district cultural foundations.

Information on the performances is on the event's official website (www.kstagefesta.kr).

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