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Busan Fireworks Festival Nov 7 2026: 7 PM Start, Live Cam If You Can't Go, Tickets Close Today 5 PM

Kim Taechoul, ReporterPublished KST
✓ Verified 2026-11-06 · against official sourcesOriginal source ↗A daily paper for first-time visitors to Korea · every morning · Korean · English · Japanese · Chinese · Vietnamese · Indonesian
File photo of the Busan Fireworks Festival at Gwangalli (2018, not this year's event) · Photo: Busan Metropolitan city, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Bottom line: If you can't be at Gwangalli Beach for the Busan Fireworks Festival on Saturday, November 7, 2026, you can watch it on the live Gwangalli–Gwangan Bridge camera in the "Live Korea" section of the Korea Tourism Times home page (koreatourismtimes.com). The fireworks start at 7 PM (per Korean press reports). The cam is a YouTube live stream from the "Busan Live Cam" channel embedded on our page; it was streaming as of 2:40 PM on November 6. It is not our channel, so it could drop or change angle that evening — if so, search YouTube for "Gwangalli live".

If you didn't know: Paid-seat tickets close today, November 6, at 5 PM, and there are no on-site sales (organizer's official notice). Driving there will not work: Gwangan Bridge is fully closed on the 7th from 3:30 PM (upper deck) and 6:30 PM (lower deck) until midnight, and Gwangnam-ro loses even its 11 bus routes from 6 PM (organizer's traffic-control notice). Last year's 20th festival drew 1.17 million people (Newsis). The costliest mistake is leaving in the evening believing you can still get there.

At a glance

Date Saturday, November 7, 2026 · Where Gwangalli Beach, Igidae and Dongbaekseom, Suyeong-gu, Busan · Fireworks 7 PM start; from 7:25 PM a 30-minute "Busan Multi Fireworks Show" with Gwangan Bridge as the backdrop (Newsis, Nov 6, 2026; the organizer's own schedule page still says "to be updated" as of the afternoon of Nov 6) · Paid seats NOL Ticket, sales close Nov 6, 2026, 5 PM · Live cam koreatourismtimes.com → "Live Korea" → Busan Gwangalli & Gwangan Bridge · Road closures Gwangan Bridge upper deck 3:30 PM–midnight, lower deck 6:30 PM–midnight; Gwangan Beach Road (Eonyang 3-way to Mannam Plaza) from 10 AM; Gwangnam-ro public transport from 6 PM · Contact Busan Festival Organization +82-51-713-5000.

How we checked this

Date, venue and road-closure times come from the "Traffic Control Guide" image posted October 20, 2026 on the organizer's official site (busanfireworks.com); the ticket deadline (Nov 6, 5 PM) is from the notice banner on the same site. The 7 PM start and the 30-minute multi-show from 7:25 PM are figures in two Newsis reports dated November 6, 2026. The organizer's "Event Schedule" page read only "to be updated" on the afternoon of November 6, so the start time is not in official material. The live cam is the YouTube channel "Busan Live Cam" (Gwangalli & Gwangan Bridge); we confirmed it was live and embeddable at 2:40 PM on November 6, 2026. Whether it streams on the night depends on the channel owner, which we cannot guarantee. The traffic-control image was viewed on the busanfireworks.com traffic page on November 6, 2026.

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