Pohang, the "City of Light and Steel Art," Extends 2025 Pohang Steel Art Festival Exhibitions

The 2025 Pohang Steel Art Festival, hosted by the Pohang Cultural Foundation, is gaining momentum amid enthusiastic support from citizens and visitors.

Works that blend steel and art are displayed throughout the city, simultaneously showcasing Pohang’s industrial identity and cultural sensibility.

Exhibition halls 1 and 3, scheduled to be extended until November 20. Provided by Pohang City

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The exhibitions in halls 1 and 3 at Dongbin Culture Warehouse 1969, originally scheduled to end on November 9, will be extended and run until November 20. However, the exhibition in Hall 2 at Yeongildae Beach will close as planned on November 9.

The 2025 Pohang Steel Art Festival, which opened in October under the theme "Light and Steel" (named by novelist Kim Hoon), coincided with the APEC Summit and the Gyeongbuk Lifelong Learning Expo, drawing both domestic and international visitors. This has helped Pohang establish itself as a "city where steel and art coexist."

Now in its 14th year, the Steel Art Festival has evolved beyond its traditional focus on sculpture, transforming into a new humanities, technology, and citizen participation-oriented festival that reinterprets "steel" as a language of art.

In particular, the citizen participation programs "Steel Workshop Steel Art Workshop" and "Steel Tour" proved so popular that all sessions were fully booked as soon as reservations opened.

With active participation from families and young people, the city was filled with vibrant scenes of artistic energy.

A foundation representative stated, "This year’s Steel Art Festival saw more enthusiastic and voluntary participation from citizens than ever before. We hope that, during the extended period, even more people will experience the message of 'Light and Steel' and share in Pohang’s artistic identity."

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