Gwangbok Record Fair 2026 — Return to Busan Port

Gwangbok Record Fair 2026, “Return to Busan Port,” is the third downtown fair highlighting Busan’s maritime music around the port’s 150th anniversary. It runs Oct 9–10, 12:00–21:00, in the first-floor annex of the Busan Museum of Movies and Modern History (104 Daecheong-ro, Jung-gu). General entry, record booths and DJ sets are free and open to walk-ins. On Oct 10, DJs at 13:00 and 15:00 require no booking; the 14:00 listening session (30 places), 16:00 listening lecture (30) and 19:00–21:00 concert (80) are advance-registration programs. The online application deadline was Oct 9 at 18:00 and has passed as of this check. A Joongdo preshow report mentions about 20 record collectors/sellers; no attendance forecast or actual count was published. Booth hours differ across sources—Busan’s organizer page lists 12:00–19:00, while a preshow news report says 12:00–18:00—so prefer the organizer and confirm onsite.

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Start: Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 PM KST
End: Oct 10, 2026, 9:00 PM KST
Venue: 부산근현대역사관 별관 1층
Address: 부산광역시 중구 대청로 104

Stone facade of the Busan Modern and Contemporary History Museum annex, a historic building. — Annex exterior photographed in September 2024.
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Checked October 9, 2026, 21:28 KST. Today’s 12:00–21:00 opening day has ended; the final day is scheduled for Oct 10, 12:00–21:00, in the museum annex. Walk-in visitors can browse the record stalls (the organizer lists 12:00–19:00) and attend the 13:00/15:00 DJ sets. The 14:00 Busan Port listening session and 16:00 listening lecture are capped at 30 each; the 19:00 Kim Il-du and Dalbyeoldeul / 20:00 Jo Dong-hee with Park Hye-ri concert is capped at 80 and listed as advance registration. The application window ended at 18:00 today. Some reservation pages may retain a stale “accepting applications” label after the cutoff; confirm any cancellations or walk-in seats with the museum (051-607-8034). General admission is free, but seats for selected sessions are limited. The organizer connects the port’s 150th anniversary with Busan’s local popular-music history; a Joongdo preshow report mentions about 20 record vendors/collectors. No attendance estimate or actual count was published. Naver was prioritized, but Naver Search/Blog access was blocked by robots.txt, so three independent firsthand reports could not be compared. Yonhap, Joongdo and Newsis pieces dated Sep 27 are preshow coverage, not visitor reviews, and are not used as evidence of onsite atmosphere or queues. Museum directions give the annex address as 104 Daecheong-ro, a 7-minute walk from Jungang Station exit 5 or 12 minutes from Nampo Station exit 1; visitors are directed to the nearby Yongdusan Park public car park. The museum’s usual gallery hours are 09:00–18:00 (last entry 17:00), closed Mondays and Jan 1, but this fair has separate hours through 21:00. Live parking and event-entry arrangements were not checked; verify current organizer notices.