The 7th Buyeo Seodong Lotus Festival began today and will be held until the 19th of July. Aside from admiring the lotus in the Gungnamji pond, there are numerous activities within the park (I will post those photos later).
To get there, take a bus for Buyeo at the Nambu Bus Terminal in Seoul. It’s a 2-hour trip costing W12,800. From the Buyeo Bus Terminal, take a cab, telling the driver Buyeo Seodong [bu-yo so-dong].
Beware of a Goodtrae cab at Buyeo bus terminal with license number 1082. Seeing that I was a tourist and in spite of pointing out Seodong Park in a Korean brochure, the cabdriver drove me very far away to see a statue of a standing Buddha in the middle of a forest and a film set for Korean old dramas. Instead of costing me W 2,000 to go to the Lotus Festival, I paid W 62,000 to see a statue not worth seeing, and a drama stage set only the Korean elderly would be interested in.
The Seodong Park is 5 minutes away from the Buyeo bus terminal. You will see large balloon streamers in the sky surrounding the Park.
