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2026 DMZ OPEN 페스티벌
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An exhibition at Camp Greaves and Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri runs across several weeks, while the forum and music festival are each scheduled for a single day. The festival brings art, scholarship and sport together around the DMZ’s peace, ecology and history.
Three programme formats offer three ways to encounter the DMZ’s peace, ecology and history.
DMZ OPEN EXHIBITION: STAGING is presented at Camp Greaves and Imjingak Pyeonghwa Nuri. Its run spans several weeks, giving this programme a longer window than the forum and music festival, which are each scheduled for a single day 🙂
The festival frames the DMZ through peace, ecology and history, inviting visitors to encounter it through culture and art. The exhibition is the programme to choose if you want to spend time with the festival’s artistic interpretation of the area rather than visit for a single scheduled event.
The event is described as free, with some programmes paid. Check the admission conditions for the exhibition before setting out, so you know whether your visit involves a charge.
The 2026 DMZ OPEN Eco Peace Forum takes place at Sono Calm Goyang. It brings the festival’s academic strand into focus, with the DMZ’s ecological and peace-related themes at its centre 🤭
The forum is scheduled for a single day, unlike the exhibition’s longer run. If you want to make your visit about discussion and ideas, this is the programme to look at; check its admission conditions before going, since some festival programmes are paid.
The DMZ OPEN International Music Festival is at Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Concert Hall. Its name points to a music-centred strand of the wider festival, adding a concert-hall experience to the exhibition and forum 👌
The music festival is scheduled for a single day, so it offers a more concentrated visit than the exhibition. Would you choose the Eco Peace Forum or the International Music Festival? Pick the one whose format suits you better: a programme centred on ideas, or one centred on music ☺️
Admission is free for the event overall, but some programmes are paid; check the conditions for the music festival before making your plans. Choose your programme, then check its admission details before you head to the venue!
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A quick guide to names and expressions, kept in their original form.
2026 DMZ OPEN Eco-Peace Forum
DMZ OPEN International Music Festival ※ Marathon schedule is undecided and will be updated later
전시 DMZ OPEN EXHIBITION: STAGING 2026.10.12.~11.29. 캠프그리브스 / 파주 임진각 평화누리
포럼 2026 DMZ OPEN 에코피스포럼 2026.10.28. 경기도 소노캄 고양
음악제 DMZ OPEN 국제음악제 ※ 마라톤은 일정 미정으로 추후 업데이트 예정 2026.10.23. 고양아람누리 아람음악당
Free ※ Some paid
무료※ 일부 유료
Korean original
DMZ OPEN 페스티벌은 비무장지대(DMZ)가 지닌 평화·생태·역사적 가치를 예술, 학술, 스포츠 등 다양한 방식으로 직접 경험하도록 구성한 경기도의 대표 복합 문화 행사이다. 단순히 DMZ를 분단과 군사적 긴장의 공간으로 바라보는 데서 벗어나, 오랜 시간 보존된 생태환경과 역사적 의미, 평화와 공존의 가능성을 오늘의 문화적 언어로 재해석한다는 점이 특징이다. 경기도는 이를 ‘닫힌 DMZ’를 모두에게 열린 공간으로 전환한다는 의미의 ‘OPEN’ 개념으로 확장하고 있으며, 행사 역시 하나의 단일 행사가 아니라 여러 장르의 프로그램이 장기간 이어지는 형태로 운영된다.
DMZ OPEN 페스티벌의 핵심은 ‘DMZ에 대해 보는 행사’에서 한 단계 더 나아가 ‘DMZ를 걷고, 듣고, 보고, 생각하며 경험하는 축제’라는 데 있다. DMZ의 평화·생태·역사적 가치와 ‘더 큰 평화’를 축제로 구현하고, 예술·학술·스포츠 등 서로 다른 행사를 하나의 이야기 구조로 연결하는 것이 행사의 핵심 가치이다.