Daegu

In February 1905 the National Debt Redemption Movement began as a nationwide campaign to repay the nation's debt by cutting down on tobacco and alcohol consumption, donating jewelry, and reducing a number of side dishes at meals. The movement was initiated by Seo Sangdon, a local businessman, in Daegu, which later on inspired the movements in other countries to repay foreign debts such as China in 1909, Mexico in 1938 and Vietnam in 1945. This campaign, with the spirits of Daegu citizens, also provided wisdom for overcoming the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2008 global financial crisis.

2.28 Democratic Movement Memorial Park The 2.28 Democracy Movement was a voluntary resistance protest organized by high school students in Daegu to withstand the dictatorship. On February 28, 1960, about 800 high school students refused to comply with the dictatorial to attend schools on Sunday. Instead, they gathered in Banwoldang and the Gyeongsangbuk-do Government Office to rally against the government's illegality and corruption. The movement was initiated with the spirits of Daegu students and citizens, and led to the following democracy revolution in Korea.

The first Catholic church in the Yeongnam region and the first Presbyterian Church of Daegu – the first Christian church in the Gyeongsangbuk-do region – are inside the modern alley, and are symbolic buildings in the history of Christianity in Daegu. Featuring neo-Gothic tall spires, both churches are precious historical sources for studies of modern Korean architecture.

A temple with numerous treasures and cultural properties, including the world's largest stone Buddha, the Great Buddha of Yaksa Buddha.

This park includes Gwanpungnu Pavilion, a local history hall, a zoo, and some monuments.

This large wilderness park is in the southern part of the city. It covers a series of valleys and peaks of Apsan Mountain.

It is a recreational park at PalGong mountain in Daegu. It is opened 1992 October. All kinds of sports facilities is equipped such as foot volleyball court, a basketball court, a badminton court, a tennis court, roller skates court, a wrestling court, weight room.

The low point of the embankment at the provincial park begins with the hiking trail leading to the mountain, especially at night, and the view of the lake is very beautiful, along with music fountains. Subatgol, a well-being food street, and Daegu Arboretum (about 5 km), are located nearby, which is a good factor for sightseeing.

Gyeongsang-gamyeong Park is located in the heart of Daegu. During the Joseon Dynasty, this site served as the administrative office (equivalent to today’s provincial government office) that governed the Gyeongsang-do. It functioned as the provincial government office from 1910 to 1965 and is now used as a park for the public.

In every May, sponsored and managed by Daegu Foundation of Culture, Colorful Daegu Festival offers performances and art programs for everyone to enjoy and participate in. A variety of events are held and the highlight of the festival is the Colorful Parade. Other activities include rock & b-boy dance competitions, concerts, and food trucks to get your fill.

Every summer during July, Daegu Chimac Festival celebrates what Koreans love to enjoy, chicken with beer, and will take place at Duryu Park in Dalseo-gu, Daegu. The term "chimac" is a portmanteau of chicken and maekju (meaning "beer"). The festival had one million visitors in 2016 and might become one of the most significant events in Korea. Daegu Chimaek Festival, which has become increasingly loved by modern people, is growing into a hot festival where you can watch performances by various artists while having chicken and beer in hot weather.

Gwandeung Nori is a traditional cultural festival that has been handed down from the Silla Dynasty to the Joseon Dynasty and the present, and it has been reborn as a cultural festival with a long history and tradition that has been in the form of Gwandeung Nori since 1967 and has continued for half a century.

Exciting melodies have filled the air across the city every summer as the city hosts its annual musical festival since 2006. Along with a splendid opening concert, the DIMF Awards, a variety of international performances attract musical manias as well as citizens. The DIMF, as the first international musical festival in Asia, offers a chance for musical producers and agencies as well as people to come together and share the joy of musicals with the world.

The Korea Tteokbokki Festival is a nationwide food festival held in Daegu. This festival is characterized by a combination of the sensibility of a food cart and a retro atmosphere under the theme of tteokbokki, which has been enjoyed by men and women of all ages. Tteokbokki brands and food trucks from various regions will participate in the event to showcase a variety of recipes and personalities, and visitors can experience from the taste of tteokbokki in memories to a new style of fusion tteokbokki. The street food cart culture of the 1980s and 1990s has been reinterpreted modernly to evoke the sensibility of those times, and at the same time, it approaches the present generation with new cultural contents. It is meaningful as a place to form empathy and exchange between generations beyond simply enjoying food, and it is a festival that serves as an opportunity to revitalize the local economy and spread the cultural charm of Daegu.

It is a traditional cultural festival that connects the past and the present through a festival program based on oriental medicine culture with a history and tradition of 367 years since its opening in Yakryeong City, and represents the region. It aims to induce the participation of visitors through various programs that combine time-slip elements with the focus on re-examining the value of oriental medicine culture and sustainable festival operation, and further contribute to the revitalization of Daegu Yakryeong City's commercial district by commercializing traditional cultural resources in Daegu Yakryeong City.

The E-World Starlight Festival presents a colorful and romantic appearance of flowers and starlight that can only be seen in winter E-World under the slogan of <10 million flower garden>. The Starlight Festival, which begins in earnest at night, will see Angel Road, the nation's longest light road with the longest length of 250m in Korea, and Giant Angel B, a mega-sized version of the E-World mascot BB character. You can leave a new life by touring the nation's largest , the country's first , and the most beautiful .

The Preview In Daegu (PID), officially known as the Daegu International Textile Fair, is South Korea's largest specialized trade show for textile and fashion materials, held annually in Daegu, a major center of the nation's textile industry. The exhibition covers the entire textile value chain, from apparel, industrial, eco-friendly, and functional materials to textile machinery and AI/digital fashion technology, providing a platform for global trend forums and business matching at EXCO, Daegu.

The Gyeongsanggamyeong Traditional Cultural Reenactment Festival is a historical and cultural event that recreates the traditional ceremonies and daily customs of the Gyeongsanggamyeong (慶尙監營), the highest provincial administrative office of the Joseon Dynasty's Gyeongsang province. Held annually in the autumn (typically October) at the Gyeongsanggamyeong Park in Jung-gu, Daegu, the festival showcases various historical reenactments, including the Gate Guard Changing Ceremony, Patrol Rituals (Sulla-uisik), and traditional military music performances, allowing visitors to experience 400-year-old Joseon-era administrative culture.

The Biseulsan Mountain's Champloit Colony is in full bloom under the warm sunlight, coloring the land of 300,000 pyeong pink. Historic temples and cultural relics are scattered throughout Biseulsan Mountain. The ridge that you can see from the top of Cheonwangbong Peak is beautiful as if it were painted in ink. If you look down from the viewing deck, the stream of Nakdonggang River flows along the mountainous area. As you walk a little further around Daegyeonsa Temple, a wide and pink flower garden spreads out in front of your eyes, and it provides a touching moment when you see a true flower bloom with every step you take across the colony.

The Palgongsan Cherry Blossom Festival, along with the Palgongsan Mountain Maple Festival, is a representative festival of Palgongsan Mountain. The Palgongsan Cherry Blossom Festival, which began in 2009, is designed to allow tourists to appreciate the beauty of the cherry blossom tunnel from Boulo-dong, Dong-gu, Daegu to viewing the fairy tale area next to Palgongsan Donghwasa Temple in April every year and enjoy various programs.

Dongseong-ro Festival, which first opened in May 1990, has been a successful model of a purely private-led festival for 21 years and has won the "Korea Representative Festival Award" in 2008 and 2009. In the meantime, Dongseong-ro has been transformed into a public design project (formerly KEPCO Baejeon Hall), permanent outdoor stage installation of Dongseong-ro, and maintenance of the side road of Dongseong-ro, contributing to the creation of culture and revitalization of commercial districts. Traditional events include Bisan Nongak Day Moebuk Dance, Gyeongsang Audit Train (parade, folk performance, military honor guard, calligraphy performance, family motto writing event, wedding model selection contest, celebrity invitation concert, opening celebration show, musical galas show, KOG event, and Dongseong-ro Song Festival, which is a gateway to new singers, many visitors gathered to provide opportunities to enjoy culture and art through the festival.

Dalseong Toseong Village Alley Festival is a festival to shed new light on the historical and cultural values of Dalseong Toseong, look back on the alley gardens of Bisan 2 and 3 living around Dalseong Toseong with village commentators, and to restore the town's own warmth and community. Dalseong Toseong, which has a history of 2,000 years, has continued its existence as the hometown of mind and spiritual roots for Daegu citizens. Dalseong Toseong, which has silently protected Daegu through the Three Kingdoms, Unified Silla, Goryeo, and Joseon, has always been a village and a person around it.

It has been reborn as a new "City-type Street Performing Arts Festival" with citizens. In addition, the composition of the "Street Performing Arts Festival," which takes advantage of the characteristics of the space, such as exchanges and collaborations between various performing arts genres, expansion of programs that can be enjoyed as a family unit, enhancement of citizens' participation, and participation of central street residents, presents a new model of the city festival as a downtown art crisis. It has established itself as a true citizen-participating city street performing arts festival created by combining Daegu's rich cultural and artistic human infrastructure, passionate participation of citizens, and the daily space of 2.6 million citizens in Jungang-ro.

The International Fire Safety Expo is an annual industry expo in the field of fire fighting and safety held in Daegu, South Korea. Its official name is the International Fire Safety Expo (IFSE), which is co-hosted by the Daegu Metropolitan Government, the Korea Fire Industry Technology Institute (KFI), and the Korea Fire Facilities Association. Since it was first held in 2004, it has established itself as a representative exhibition in the field of fire fighting and safety in Korea.

Let’s comprehend the spirit of no fare for failure with the ambitious “challenge” to love from the elaborate opening opera of Turandot. From the invited international opera Romeo et Juliette we learn that the undefeated “pure passion” will never yield in front of reality. How can’t we learn the “sacrifice” spirit for our love from the Italian Verdi opera La TraviataIt can’t be better to learn the love value of overcoming suffering and adversity “courage” from German Karlsruhe national opera Die Zauberflte.

Horror play, invited domestic performance, invited overseas horror performance, horror street performance, One-night-two-day Horror Camp, horror performance, Experience family festival(Ghost House, Zombie Run, Horror IT Experience Center, One-night-two-day Horror Camp, etc.)

Daegu, a city that is serious about coffee, ranks first in the number of cafes in the country compared to the population.
Through this Daegu Coffee & Cafe Festa, which will connect daily life, taste, and lifestyle, we would like to present the direction of a new cultural platform and urban coffee festival

Dalseong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival is a contemporary art festival held in the area of Kang Information, inheriting the spirit of the Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, where young artists conducted various art experiments challenging the rigidity of the established art world in the 1970s. Gangjeong, the venue for the Dalseong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, is significant as the venue for Korea's first collective event involving more than 200 artists, the largest ever, at the time of the "3rd Daegu Contemporary Art Festival" in 1977.

The Suseongmot Lake Festival is a festival that provides art experiences to citizens against the backdrop of Suseongmot Lake, which is a favorite of Daegu citizens. It was selected as the first place twice in a row in 2019 and 2020 in the Daegu Metropolitan City Excellent Regional Festival Evaluation. It is one of the projects that represents the identity of the Suseong Cultural Foundation.

It was first held at Yeungnam University's open-air auditorium in 2015 under the name of Youth Hip Hop Festival in Daegu, and has a deep history and tradition as a festival with the theme of hip-hop music in the barren region of the festival. Numerous hip-hop artists have always been built. Particularly, it is possible to invite hip-hop labels and crew members to watch a lot of group songs, and the organizers hold a Daegu Hip Hop Contest called Am A Rapstar, providing the winner with the opportunity to stand on the opening stage of the festival.

It is a festival that provides various information and experience opportunities on health, and any local resident can participate, and various programs such as health promotion events and health experience centers by theme are operated.

Inaugural ceremony and performances Maple Trail Walkathon Maple Singing Contest and Concert Free Sundubu-Tasting Event (for 1,000 people) Other participatory and interactive public activities and entertainment

Daegu is a historic city that hosted Korea's first modern art festival, which is the mecca of Korean contemporary art, and is rich in the heritage of Western contemporary art. It is an international art fair festival that consists of various artists and works.

The Daegu Short Film Festival started in 2000 with the goal of promoting domestic short film production and regional video development. The Daegu Short Film Festival is the only national competitive film festival in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province to invite various short films produced in Korea to introduce them to local citizens, and has served as a platform for producers and audiences to meet and communicate with each other. In addition, by operating the "Apple Cinema" section, which introduces works produced in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province, it aims to create more opportunities for local films to meet with audiences, and further promote film production in Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province.

The home stadium of the Samsung Lions, one of South Korea's baseball teams. It is famous for being a batter-friendly stadium, and the lights change to symbolic blue when winning a game and red when losing.

The stadium's concept is "forest," which reflects the shape of trees forming a forest in an environment-friendly space and the basin topography surrounded by Biseulsan Mountain, Palgongsan Mountain, and Apsan Mountain. The name was changed from DGB Park to IM Bank Park in 2024.

Opened in 1994, the Daegu National Museum is a member of the National Museum of Korea.

It was established to re-examine the culture of Daegu and Gyeongbuk and provide cultural spaces to students and local residents by discovering, researching, managing, and exhibiting the remains of Daegu and Gyeongbuk. Since its opening in May 1978, it has become a cultural space that shows the history and culture of Daegu and Gyeongsangbuk-do through excavation surveys, special exhibitions, and museum education programs of various relics.

It is the only comprehensive textile museum in Korea and was built to look at the history of Korean textiles and fashion and to find a direction to move forward.

Daegu Yangnyeongsi Oriental Medicine Museum will strive to become a premier Oriental medicine cultural space in Korea, offering diverse exhibitions, education, culture, and tourism experiences that allow visitors to directly see, feel, and experience the lives and essence of the people of the old Yangnyeongsi.

In October 2008, the Daegu Art Power Plant was selected and promoted as a government project under the "Creating a Creative Belt for Culture and Art Using Local Modern Industrial Heritage."
By remodeling the early-year manufacturing warehouse (Suchang-dong, Jung-gu), which has meaning as a representative space for the overall industrial heritage as well as the tobacco industry in Korea, it is possible to build a foundation for fostering creative artists as well as the effect of urban regeneration and expansion of experimental art creation infrastructure.

It is a cultural and artistic complex space and was opened in 2017. The building has three floors in a total of three buildings from Building A to Building C. Building A is operated as a book cafe and a complex art space, Building B is a complex cultural space, and Building C is a management building. It was built in 1976 and used as the private residence of the employees of the then-Jae-Ang Office and KT&G Daegu's early-year manufacturing window, but was closed in 1996 and operated as a parking lot. In July 2015, it received a donation and was transferred to Daegu City, and the ownership began to be created as a cultural and complex art space, and it was opened in December 2017.

Daegu Art Museum, a municipal art museum inaugurated in May 2011 and supported by the Daegu Municipal Government, is confident it is at the highest level of artwork management and exhibition halls. The museum has presented exhibitions promoting Daegu art's advancement through study and the re-illumination of Daegu modern and contemporary art's historical value. The museum also has planned exhibitions introducing social, artistic issues of the times and leading trends in theglobal art scene through domestic and overseas exchanges. It has also executed diverse performances and events, such as celebrity invitation lectures and academic programs for children, teenagers, and citizens of all ages, in harmony with the museum spaces.

It is an observatory in E-World, Daegu, where you can enjoy a variety of things to see and eat with your family. It consists of different exhibitions every time, and there are many exhibitions that children in particular will like.

Kansong Art Museum Daegu debuts in Daegu, the epicenter of the National Debt Compensation Movement (1907–1908) and a crucible of Korean contemporary art. As the sole permanent exhibition venue of the Kansong Art and Culture Foundation, it showcases cultural heritage preserved through the vision of "preserving the national spirit through culture." The museum aims to foster communication and integration through diverse exhibitions, educational initiatives, and cultural programs. The institution commits to systematically researching and preserving artifacts from the Daegu and Gyeongsang-do regions, unearthing new cultural treasures to promote Korean culture's value and excellence. Kansong Art Museum Daegu endeavors to collaborate with younger generations in crafting a contemporary narrative about Korean culture, traditions, and identity that transcends regional and generational boundaries.