Yurari Dry Seafood & Beer Festival 2026 in Busan: Free Admission, Craft Beer, and Dried Seafood at Nampodong Market
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Yurari Dry Seafood & Beer Festival 2026 in Busan: Free Admission, Craft Beer, and Dried Seafood at Nampodong Market

Yurari Beer Festival

The Yoorari Dry Seafood & Beer Festival brings together the excellent dried seafood of Busan’s Nampodong Dried Seafood Wholesale Market and the city’s representative craft beers. It takes place at Yoorari Plaza on September 4 and 5, 2026, and admission is free. The program is designed so everyone, regardless of age or gender, can enjoy both dried seafood and craft beer through food, performances, and interactive events.

Main Programs

  • Opening Ceremony – A program that announces the start of the event and features exciting celebratory performances.
  • Gunmaek Food Zone – A pop-up store selling dried seafood from the Nampodong Dried Seafood Wholesale Market and Busan craft beer. It includes the Briquette Grill Zone, where you can cook purchased dried seafood on the spot, and I Entrust the Dried Seafood, where purchased dried seafood is cooked according to your preference.
  • Gunmaek BAR – A lounge bar where you can find signature beer cocktails while listening to requested songs along with personal stories. The space is designed for people of all ages and genders to interact naturally, and for foreign tourists to enjoy without burden.
  • Jjan! Stage – A stage program space where everyone can raise their glasses and shout “Jjan!” (Cheers!) through exciting performances and audience-participation events.

Side Programs

  • Yoorari Jjan! Market – A flea market full of various props and trendy experience booths from small business owners in the Busan area, plus K-food food trucks that pair well with craft beer.
  • Experience Programs – A space where you can experience decorating your own shining cheers glass and making keycaps.

An art zone is also on site, where visitors can meet portrait artists active in the Gwangbok-ro Culture Street; it supports the development and coexistence of local art.

Event Details

Yoorari Dry Seafood & Beer Festival

Nampodong Market sits in Busan’s Nampo-dong district, a short walk from Jagalchi Fish Market and BIFF Square. It is one of the older traditional markets in the city, and its main trade is dried seafood. Stalls sell salted and sun-dried fish, pollock, anchovies, squid, and seasoned laver. The smell is salty and concentrated.

The market is small. Its main alleys branch into narrower lanes, and the stalls are packed close together. Alongside the seafood are stalls for produce, clothing, and household goods. On most days, vendors arrange their goods and call out to customers; a few snack stalls cook food on the spot. The layout is straightforward, and the covered sections make it usable in most weather.

The Yurari Dry Seafood & Beer Festival is held here. Vendors keep their regular dried-seafood stock out, and beer stalls are added in the open spaces. The event gives the market a different evening crowd, but the daily business remains the reason the market survives.

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