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Incheon Airport unveils Korean traditional year-end decorations
Incheon International Airport has unveiled traditional year-end decorations in its Terminal 1 Millennium Hall.
The display is themed around sending off the old year and welcoming the new one, and will remain until January 31.
Traditional symbols are meant to wish travelers safe journeys and celebrate the new year.
Decorations include the Ten Symbols of Longevity and lanterns featuring patterns associated with good fortune.
A one-minute tiger-and-magpie artwork plays every 15 minutes on the hall’s media wall.
A QR code offers audio explanations in Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese, and the airport hopes visitors will experience Korean culture as they travel.
Incheon International Airport has unveiled year-end decorations themed on seeing off the old year and welcoming the new one.
The display is in the central Millennium Hall on the first floor of Terminal 1.
It uses traditional Korean New Year prints called se-hwa to wish travelers safe journeys and celebrate the new year.
The decorations include imagery of the Ten Symbols of Longevity, lanterns with auspicious folk-art patterns and a media-art presentation based on a traditional tiger-and-magpie painting.
The display will run through Jan. 31, and information is available by QR code in four languages.
- Who
- Incheon International Airport Corp. unveiled the decorations for airport travelers.
- What
- A year-end display themed on seeing off the old year and welcoming the new one.
- When
- Unveiled on Nov. 10, 2026; it will run through Jan. 31.
- Where
- The central Millennium Hall on the first floor of Incheon Airport’s Terminal 1.
- Why
- It draws on Korean traditions and conveys wishes for travelers’ safe journeys and a happy new year.
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Incheon International Airport Corp. said it would present year-end decorations at the airport.
The airport’s traditional-themed year-end decorations were reported as unveiled.
The year-end decorations will remain on display.
- Location
- Millennium Hall, first floor of Terminal 1
- Display theme
- Seeing off the old year and welcoming the new one
- Media art
- A one-minute work based on a tiger-and-magpie painting, shown every 15 minutes
- Languages
- Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese
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What people are saying
We hope passengers marking the end of the year and the start of the new year at Incheon Airport will experience Korean culture and sentiment.