THURSDAY TO SUNDAY – Los Angeles
Celebrate with us for the 49th Los Angeles Korean Festival this September 22-25! Give your taste buds a blast with authentic Korean Foods on display, shop till you drop with Korean merchandise, and witness Korean traditional cultural performances, Korean celebrity shows, and a variety of fun programs!
MAP OF FESTIVITIES
FESTIVAL OF FOOD
Every festival requires food that energizes people as they walk around looking at all the attractions. The Los Angeles Korean Festival proudly boasts exquisite food that will make your mouth water. With foods that are straight from the streets of Korea, eating Korean foods at our festival will make you feel like you’re roaming the bright streets of Korea. LAKF also presents not only food that is loved in the streets of Korea but foods that are enjoyed by everyone throughout the world.
Come and enjoy a new food experience: ranging from the taste of mom’s Korean-style pancake to the spicy flavors of a Korean rice cake, to craving-inducing Korean BBQ to the iconic shape of a tornado potato, together with Korean-infused foods from around the world.
FESTIVAL OF SHOPPING
The Los Angeles Korean Festival (LAKF) is a one-stop shopping destination where you can find unique local and Korea’s regional premium products. Featuring Korean products that are even hard to get a hold of in Koreatown, Los Angeles Korean Festival provides vendors that bring products straight from Korea. Beautiful lanterns from the Korean province of Jinju welcome over 500 vendors and 400,000 shoppers at a festival that is nothing short of amazing. Charmingly made booths that consist of automobiles, cosmetics, casinos, and many more local vendors participate to market their brand and sell their exclusive products. We also have beautiful and tasty products from our local Angelinos who know how to cater to us.
Come check out the following special areas and what these unique vendors have to offer!
Korean Agricultural Exposition (Expo)
Vendors from all over South Korea come to sell their homeland products. Being in Los Angeles, we are mostly only exposed to products that come from Seoul, the expo is here to help us truly taste Korea from the roots. With over 120 different companies from 8 provinces in Korea that come to join us, Angelinos will get the opportunity to taste foods and buy goods straight from Korea!
Korean Toys & Premium Products Expo (KTEx)
Like Korean Agricultural products, many shoppers scour online to find products with cult followings through social media whether cosmetics, kitchen products, home goods, and other unique products. This year, 40 booths of goods that you can find in Korea will be dedicated within the heart of our festival. The newly organized KTEx will allow shoppers to see products firsthand from Korea without the struggle of depending on family and friends to ship them over from Korea.
FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE
On a glamorous stage in the heart of the festival, Korean traditional cultural performances, Korean celebrity shows, and a variety of fun programs will be presented. In Los Angeles, the Korean Festival pursues both following new trends and keeping the tradition alive at the same time, this aspect of the festival draws a diverse crowd of both ages and ethnicity while the makeup of the stage brings pleasure to all of the audience during the festival. Through the power of Hallyu, we hope that LAKF attendees can now enjoy the festivities and performances that are spreading from Korea to the world. We plan on creating an enjoyable and memorable time for everyone to come and enjoy the renowned performances on our fabulous stage!
FESTIVAL OF EXPERIENCE
Korea’s representative traditional beauty attire is the HANBOK. Wear it and make composite images amongst the backdrop of breathtaking Korean structures and views. Share these amazing moments and experiences with the people you treasure the most. Further, come and learn how to make a Korean lotus flower, craft a turtle ship, play traditional Korean games, and much more. Through these fun-filled activities, you can experience an extraordinary Korean cultural life. We will also provide a Korean traditional festival as an amusement. You will be able to play and sing traditional songs with a large gong [Jing], a small gong [Kkwaenggwari], a middle waist drum [Janggu], and a small handle drum [Sogo], and many more Korean instruments to teach you about ancient Korean ancestor spirits. In addition, we will provide a variety of Korean cultures and customs to allow foreigners who come to create meaningful and exciting memories.
Los Angeles Korean Parade
Sponsored by The Korea Times (Los Angeles), the annual Korean Parade on Olympic Boulevard has become one of the best features that the festival offers. Ornate floats from corporate sponsors, performers, and Koreatown’s notable figures, parade down the street as crowds of all ages gather.
965 S. Normandie Ave., #102, Los Angeles, CA 90006
In 1974, the Los Angeles Korean Festival Foundation was founded by the leaders of the early Korean-American community with the purpose of preserving their Korean roots after immigrating to the United States. In the great city of Los Angeles, where many diverse cultures co-exist, the Los Angeles Korean Festival Foundation is considered one of the major advocates of furthering the knowledge of Korean culture and its traditions. The LAKF Foundation works year-round in organizing the four-day festival to carry out the mission of providing the community with a festival that is an instrument of inclusivity and an advocate of cultural diversity awareness, providing not only the Korean cultural heritage but also bringing together the numerous ethnic groups residing in Los Angeles.
The annual festival has evolved beyond what the founders could have imagined. The Los Angeles Korean Festival continues to provide fun and exciting experiences, through its great entertainment, food vendors, a mile-long parade, and promotional exhibits from many different industries. One of the greatest additions is the Korean Premium Products Expo. Attendees that come from all over the United States, can readily acquire goods that were once difficult to come by.
You are all invited, free of admission for all four days. Come, join us, and let’s celebrate together!
For additional information, visit the website @
www.lakoreanfestival.org
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