Yeouido Spring Flower Festival

Picnickers walk under apricot blossoms at the 7th Han River Yeouido Spring Flower Festival at Yeouiseo-ro, Yeouido, Tuesday. The festival runs through Monday. / Korea Times photos by Shim Hyun-chul The smell of cherry blossoms adds sweetness to the spring breeze of Yeouido. The pale pink of flimsy petals of the cherry blossom falls slowly. The seventh Han River Yeouido Spring Flower Festival is held through Monday at Yeouiseo-ro, a street located at the back of the National Assembly Building. The annual festival features some 1,440 cherry blossom trees along with azalea shrubs, forsythia flowers, magnolia and apricot trees decorating the street, also known as Yunjung-no. Street performances such as mime and modern dance will be staged during the festival and florists will exhibit floral decorations. The organizer is lending running shoes and baby carriages as a part of a “women-friendly” festival project. The Yeongdeungpo District Office regulates traffic for the festival — the 1.7-kilometer section from the southern part of Seogang Bridge to Yeoui2 Bridge and from Mapo Bridge to Yeoui-downstream Interchange. The venue is close to Yeouinaru Station on subway line No. 5 and the National Assembly Station on subway line No. 9. A shuttle bus for the venue operates from Dangsan Station, Yeongdeungpo-gu Office Station, Yeongdeungpo Station, Yeouinaru Station and the National Assembly building. For more information visit http://www.ydp.go.kr/english/main.do or call (02) 2670-3140.