Hundreds of colorful lanterns brighten up the autumn sky as the 2019 Seoul Lantern Festival takes place at Cheonggyecheon Stream.<br />This year's event draws inspiration from fairytales,... with a wide array of lantern art pieces on show.<br />Our Eum Ji-young takes us there.<br />A flying magic carpet to save the princess from the fairytale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp lights up the Seoul sky.<br />The Little Prince and Little Red Riding Hood also welcome the guests.<br />They are just a few of the more than 70 sets of lanterns along the Cheonggyecheon Stream in central Seoul where the festival takes place every year.<br />"Unlike previous years, this year's event features widely loved characters from fairytales with a theme of 'Seoul, Your Fairy Tale' so that both guests from Korea and foreigners can relate to the festival."<br />The festival, which is in its 11th year has 1.2 kilometers of displays including eye-catching pieces from traditional Korean fairytales and key heroes from Korean history along with some of the city's iconic attractions and monuments.<br />"It's really beautiful. I really liked the lanterns because we don't do anything like this in my country.<br />I really liked the lanterns from the fairytales. I found them very beautiful and also I really liked the King Sejong sitting on the throne."<br />And there are plenty of other events for visitors to enjoy.<br />"Visitors to this year's Seoul Lantern Festival can float a wish boat along the Cheonggyecheon Stream or make their own lantern."<br />The event attracts more than 2 million people from around the globe every year.<br />"We are French bloggers in France about Korean culture so we want to promote Korean culture in France so this is why we came here because we know about this festival."<br />One of the main events on the festival calendar in Korea, this year's Seoul Lantern Festival runs until November 17th.<br />Eum Ji-young Arirang News.<br />
