Semiwon Water Lily Culture Festival

The Semiwon Water Lily Culture Festival is a representative autumn garden culture festival held at Semiwon, located in Yangpyeong County, Gyeonggi Province. Semiwon is a garden of water and flowers surrounded on three sides by Paldang Lake, and is Gyeonggi Province's first local garden, featuring traditional Eastern garden styles and a variety of aquatic plants. The Water Lily Culture Festival is an event held centered on the water lily, Semiwon's representative aquatic plant, and is a festival that offers distinctive autumn garden scenery. It presents a differentiated garden landscape harmonizing diverse water lilies and aquatic plants, including the Victoria water lily called the 'queen of flowers', exotic Australian water lilies, and colorful tropical water lilies. Visitors can appreciate the beauty of water lilies blooming on the water and enjoy a leisurely rest in the city. In particular, as the host site of the 2026 Gyeonggi Garden Culture Expo, it plans to present even richer garden culture content. The Semiwon area is a place imbued with the history of Baedari of Jeong Yak-yong, a Silhak scholar of the late Joseon Dynasty, and is equipped with various facilities such as the Lotus Museum, Jangdokdae Fountain, Sehanjeong, and Baedari, serving as a complex cultural space where nature, ecology, and culture and arts come together, as well as a four-season garden tourist destination.

Program

1. Main program: Garden viewing with a harmony of water lilies and aquatic plants, special exhibition at the Lotus Museum, 'Lotus, Embroidering Life's Wishes'
2. Side programs: Pungnyu Harmony of Rope and Drum: acoustic concert, special exhibition at the Lotus Museum, permanent exhibition at Gallery Semi
3. Consumer participation programs: 'Pungnyu, Flowing with Autumn' stamp tour, lotus culture experience class, special exhibition commentary at the Lotus Museum and linked education program (making lotus crafts), Little Gardener workbook program, Pungnyu journey full of chrysanthemum fragrance (SNS event)
4. Other information: Carbon neutrality, "Let's take the subway together" campaign, garden commentary program by cultural tourism interpreters, operation of a heatwave shelter rest area
5. Facilities inside the garden: Cafe Yeon, Semiwon Lotus Bread Shop, Art Shop Semi
[Admission Fees]
- General admission: 7,000 won (adults aged 19 and over, 2,000 won Yangpyeong Love Gift Certificate provided)
- Discounted admission: 4,000 won (children aged 6 and over, teenagers, seniors aged 65 and over, persons with mild disabilities (grades 4-6), 1,000 won Yangpyeong Love Gift Certificate provided)
- Group admission: 4,000 won (30 or more people, duplicate discounts not applicable, 1,000 won Yangpyeong Love Gift Certificate provided)
- Free: children aged 5 and under, Yangpyeong County residents (1 ticket per person), persons with severe disabilities (grades 1-3) themselves and 1 accompanying guardian, persons of national merit and their spouses, active-duty soldiers, basic livelihood security recipients class 1 (documents required), bereaved families of the deceased and the injured