20th Busan Fireworks Festival held at Gwangalli Beach in November 2025

The 20th Busan Fireworks Festival took place on 15 November 2025 at Gwangalli Beach, in South Korea's second-largest city. It is the city's best-known annual night-time event, held along the waterfront in front of the Gwangandaegyo (Gwangan Bridge).

The evening was built around a programme of several fireworks shows launched over the bay, set to music and staged with the lit-up bridge as a backdrop. Huge crowds gathered on the sand and in the cafés and streets around the beach, and local authorities managed access and crowd flow to keep the area safe.

The festival mattered as a milestone edition and as a major draw for tourism in Busan during the autumn season. It also set the benchmark for scale and organisation that later editions, including the 2026 festival, are measured against.