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- Everland’s Tulip Festival opens on March 20 and runs through April 30, bringing more than 1.2 million spring flowers into bloom across the park
- This year’s festival introduces a larger tulip garden experience alongside new seasonal content, including the renewed Safari World, a special nighttime fireworks show, and a world-class circus production
- From daytime floral displays and immersive photo zones to evening garden lighting and large-scale performances, the festival presents a broader spring experience across Everland
Spring at Everland is set to begin in full color as the Tulip Festival returns on March 20. Running through April 30, this year’s festival combines large-scale spring flower displays with a wide range of new attractions, offering visitors more ways to experience the season across the park.
Presented by Samsung C&T Resort Group, the festival features around 1.2 million spring flowers from more than 100 varieties, including tulips, daffodils, and muscari. Alongside the floral displays, Everland is unveiling an expanded lineup of seasonal content this spring, including a renewed Safari World, a new fireworks show, and a large-scale circus performance, creating one of its most comprehensive spring programs to date.
A Larger Spring Garden by Day and a Transformed Night Garden After Sunset
With the festival’s opening, Four Seasons Garden will be reimagined under the concept of My Spring Palette, turning the approximately 10,000-square-meter space into an expansive tulip garden filled with vivid seasonal color. To highlight the scale and intensity of the spring blooms, Everland has expanded the tulip planting area this year and further upgraded the overall garden presentation.
One of the garden’s signature features is its infinity-style display, where floral imagery shown on a large LED screen visually connects with the real flower beds below, blending virtual and physical scenery into one continuous landscape. This spring, that visual connection extends farther and wider toward the Cucina Mario restaurant, allowing visitors to walk through the flower beds and experience an atmosphere reminiscent of a vast tulip field in the Netherlands.
The garden will also include a variety of spring photo spots designed to encourage visitors to slow down and capture the season. These include the Flower Drop photo zone, where falling paint-like colors echo the shades of blooming flowers, a tulip skirt photo spot, and a mirror selfie zone. Together, these installations are expected to make the garden one of Everland’s most popular spring photo destinations.
After dark, the atmosphere shifts again as lighting and music transform the space into a night tulip garden. Everland collaborated with internationally recognized British installation artist Bruce Munro to create garden lighting throughout the area. Light emitted from sculptural pieces and fiber-optic installations blends with the tulips to create a romantic wave of illuminated flowers, giving the garden a dreamlike nighttime mood distinct from its daytime setting.
Seasonal Programs, Food, and Spring Merchandise
Everland is also preparing a range of festival programs and seasonal offerings for visitors. From March 20 for three mornings, visitors can apply through the Everland mobile app for a special tulip docent program, which allows selected participants to enter one hour before opening and hear directly from a garden designer about the flowers and plants on display.
During the festival, a daily hands-on coloring activity will also be available at the greenhouse lounge in Four Seasons Garden, where visitors can freely color tulip concept art.
Spring-themed food and merchandise will be available throughout the resort as well. Special menu items include tulip-shaped tarts, spring salads, bibimbap, and strawberry drinks, while shops around Everland will offer new seasonal goods such as tulip headbands and flower-holding dolls.
Another seasonal attraction opening on March 20 is Sky Garden Trail, the first plum blossom-themed garden in the Seoul metropolitan area. All Everland visitors will be able to enjoy the subtle fragrance of plum blossoms along the trail as part of the wider spring garden experience.
Safari World Returns with a Wilder New Look
Safari World, available only at Everland in Korea, will also return in a renewed format this spring. Reopening on April 1, the attraction has undergone a landscape renewal focused on animal ecology, creating a more immersive environment for observing predators living more freely within animal-friendly habitats. Visitors will be able to see eight species of wild animals, including lions, tigers, brown bears, and hyenas.
As part of the renewal, Everland developed habitat-based storytelling for each area, such as a savanna grassland for lions, a predator forest for tigers, and a northern forest for brown bears. The individual enclosures have been designed to reflect these different ecological settings more distinctly.
Environmental elements have also been significantly strengthened to support animal welfare and encourage more natural movement, including waterfalls, ponds, trees, and enrichment structures tailored to each species. The safari vehicles themselves have been changed from the previous tram format to eco-friendly EV buses wrapped in animal concepts such as lions, tigers, and Asiatic black bears, allowing visitors to experience the attraction in a quieter and more comfortable environment over the 15-minute ride.
The themed experience continues through the waiting area and merchandise zone as well. Visitors will encounter animal illustrations created by Everland honorary zookeeper Soo-sung Shin, life-size animal graphics, and newly released goods such as predator plush toys and safari bus toys, extending the attraction’s sense of immersion from start to finish.
New Large-Scale Performances Debut This Spring
This spring, Everland is also introducing large-scale new performances unlike anything previously seen at the resort.
The Guardians of Light
Opening on April 1 at Four Seasons Garden, the special fireworks show The Guardians of Light will serve as Everland’s main nighttime performance. Produced in collaboration with leading Korean and international creative talent, the new show brings together Everland’s multimedia show expertise with large-scale visual storytelling and live performance elements.
The production is led by acclaimed Korean performance director Jung-woong Yang, known for directing national-scale events including the cultural performance for the 2025 APEC Summit and the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The show also features contributions from singer 10CM’s Jung-yeol Kwon, actor Sang-yoon Lee, and the Prague Metropolitan Orchestra, who participated in the music and narration.
Large drones, newly introduced into an Everland multimedia show for the first time, will be used to create character-focused visuals and performances, while garden lighting will add to the atmosphere around the central show zone. Every night, visitors will be able to experience an outdoor production combining thousands of fireworks, video, music, and special effects.
At the center of the show is a roughly 20-minute fantasy adventure featuring Everland’s representative characters, Lenny and Friends, reimagined in a steampunk style. Character performers will also return to the multimedia show for the first time in seven years, appearing alongside immersive visual content and approaching the audience more closely from the newly created central stage.
Wings of Memory
Also beginning April 1, Everland’s Grand Stage theater will host Wings of Memory, described as Korea’s only world-class circus performance. The show will be presented twice daily in the approximately 1,000-seat venue.
Created in collaboration with Canadian global circus production company Éloize, the performance brings together a team that includes former Cirque du Soleil creative directors, acrobatic designers, and circus coaches who traveled to Korea to take part directly in the production. More than 20 artists from global performance troupes including Cirque du Soleil, as well as arts university backgrounds, will appear in the show.
The approximately 40-minute performance follows the story of a protagonist named El who is guided by a mysterious swan and spirit into a magical world. Acrobatics, dance, video, music, and special effects are woven together throughout the production, with seven advanced circus disciplines including contortion, aerial pole, and Russian swing delivering moments of tension and emotion for the audience.
To heighten immersion, Everland is using Panasonic PT-RQ35K projectors with 4K resolution, along with new stage devices such as a flying swan puppet and a moving boat. In celebration of the circus show’s launch, Everland also plans to run online and offline events in April with Air Canada, offering round-trip flight tickets to Vancouver and Toronto.
Spring Begins at Everland
Ahead of the festival opening, Everland has already been busy preparing for the season, with staff checking the blooming condition of tulips inside a nearby plant house to ensure the gardens are ready for visitors.
According to an Everland official, this year’s Tulip Festival has been prepared to offer a fuller spring outing experience through gardens filled with 1.2 million flowers, a newly renewed Safari World, and world-class new performances. The company added that Everland hopes families, couples, and friends will create lasting spring memories together at the park.
With flowers, wildlife, nighttime entertainment, and new live performances all in one destination, Everland’s Tulip Festival offers visitors a fuller spring experience from day to night.
For full details on events, operating hours, and ticket reservations, visit the Everland website or check out the Everland app. International visitors can also enjoy a 30% admission discount when presenting VISA, JCB, or certain T-money cards, or by showing eligible boarding passes from Asiana Airlines. Visitors can also receive 25% off the Everland Pass through Singapore Airlines’ Kris+ platform, which can be accessed using a KrisFlyer membership, while Discover Seoul Pass holders can enjoy free admission as part of its pass package.
