SUWON — Gyeonggi Province is rolling out its 2026 Chuseok comprehensive plan for the holiday running from the 24th through the 27th, covering four areas: livelihood stability, safety and public health, culture and welfare, and transportation and convenience.
The province has organized 41 duty teams across 16 bureaus and deployed 872 staff to run a joint situation room. The aim is to respond immediately to disasters, accidents or complaints during the holiday and minimize inconvenience for residents. Residents with questions can call the Gyeonggi Province call center, which operates around the clock, while those needing urgent care can contact the province's emergency medical situation room for referrals to nearby medical institutions.
Livelihood Stability
The livelihood measures focus on stabilizing prices of holiday goods and boosting local commerce. Through September, the province is offering incentives of 8% to 20% on Gyeonggi local currency depending on each city and county, and has raised the per-person purchase limit to as much as 2 million won. It has also formed a Chuseok price task force to check for excessive price increases on holiday goods and for violations of weights and measures rules.
A series of discount events will help ease grocery costs. Gyeonggi agricultural food sections at Nonghyup Hanaro Mart stores in Goyang, Seongnam and Suwon will sell G-mark seasonal fruit at 30% to 40% off, and seven antenna shops for rural convergence industries — in Goyang, Seongnam, Hwaseong, Suwon, Yangpyeong, Gimpo and Gwangju — will discount holiday gift sets and major items by 30% to 50%. The Market Gyeonggi direct sales outlet in Gwangju will run discounts on holiday goods and one-plus-one promotions, while the social economy online mall "031#" will take 30% off purchase amounts up to 20,000 won per person.
Food safety oversight will also be tightened. Authorities will conduct focused inspections of 360 online food retailers for illegal practices such as false country-of-origin labeling and sales of products past their use-by dates. They will also check country-of-origin labeling and run safety tests for pesticides, radiation and antibiotics on agricultural, livestock and fishery products for ancestral rites distributed through large supermarkets, traditional markets and logistics centers.
Safety and Public Health
To prevent gaps in medical care, the emergency medical situation room will operate alongside the response systems of city and county public health centers. An emergency care system will run around a network of 73 emergency medical institutions and 50 public health centers in the province, and 3,483 hospitals and clinics will stay open during the holiday. Information on medical institutions and pharmacies is available through the 120 and 129 call centers, the 119 emergency situation management center, provincial and municipal websites, and the emergency medical portal E-GEN.
Crisis response for mental health will also continue. The province has secured 49 beds at 14 psychiatric emergency institutions and will operate a 24-hour crisis counseling line for urgent consultations. Safety inspections will be stepped up at 14,853 facilities vulnerable to fire, along with management of large retail facilities and electrical and gas installations. The disaster and safety situation room will operate around the clock throughout the holiday.
Culture and Welfare
The province will check on the health and safety of 100,032 vulnerable older adults and 81,119 vulnerable people with disabilities through visits, phone calls and internet of things devices, with continued monitoring of high-risk cases during the holiday. Homeless people will be provided meals through public and private soup kitchens and boxed lunches, and cities and counties will carry out measures for children at risk of going without meals, including additional top-ups to meal cards and support for substitute food.
Except on Chuseok day itself, exhibitions will be free at public museums and art museums including the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Silhak, Anseong Machum Museum, Seongnam Cube Art Museum, Yeoju Museum and Jeongok Prehistory Museum. Under the Gyeonggi Opportunity Admission Ticket program, people aged 70 and over and people with disabilities, plus one companion each, can watch the South Korea-Ecuador national soccer team match at Suwon World Cup Stadium on the 24th for 1,000 won.
Transportation and Convenience
During the holiday, 80 additional intercity buses will be deployed on 40 routes, adding 120 trips, and last-bus times for city and village buses will be extended by up to an hour depending on local conditions. The Hanam Line and Byeollae Line of subway Line 8 will run late-night service until 1 a.m. the following day on the 26th and 27th, and real-time traffic information will be provided through the Gyeonggi Transport Information Center website and traffic broadcasts.
The 120 Gyeonggi Province call center will have 108 staff working around the clock over the four-day holiday, handling traffic information, referrals to emergency medical institutions, complaints and foreign-language consultations. Special collection systems will be run for household waste by category — volume-based, food waste and recyclables — to prevent buildup, and the province will maintain a forest disaster response room and an emergency contact network linking the province, cities and counties, and the Korea Forest Service to prepare for wildfires and landslides.
