{"id":144647,"date":"2026-09-06T07:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/144647\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:07:11","slug":"seoul-fireworks-show-attracts-1-million-spectators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/144647\/","title":{"rendered":"Seoul fireworks show attracts 1 million spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20744ad6-3f66-4d79-9b40-2589e9ab31e6.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"Spectators capture the moment fireworks illuminate the night sky over Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul, during the 2026 Seoul International Fireworks Festival, Saturday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul \" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Spectators capture the moment fireworks illuminate the night sky over Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul, during the 2026 Seoul International Fireworks Festival, Saturday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul <\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Some 1 million spectators visited the country&#8217;s largest annual fireworks show in Seoul, its organizers said Sunday, with many more believed to have enjoyed the annual event from a distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Seoul International Fireworks Festival in Seoul&#8217;s Yeouido wrapped up successfully Saturday, according to Hanwha Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Some 300 families of national heroes and war veterans were invited to the event also broadcasted live on the group&#8217;s official YouTube channel, which garnered 2.68 million views with peak concurrent users reaching 260,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The group, which shouldered the entire cost of some 13 billion won ($9.66 million) for the show, said it had made all-out efforts to ensure crowd safety, spending around 4.5 billion won for safety management alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Around 5,000 safety personnel, including some 1,200 volunteers from Hanwha affiliates, were deployed at the scene for crowd control, the largest number ever in the event&#8217;s history of over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The defense-to-ship building conglomerate added it also partnered with local telecommunication operators for real-time measurement of crowd density and CCTV monitoring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Hanwha Group has been hosting the annual fireworks festival since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectators capture the moment fireworks illuminate the night sky over Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul, during the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[355,354],"class_list":["post-144647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hanwha","tag-hanwha","tag-hanwha-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}