Making Your Own Hangang Ramen: Guide to the 2026 Festival Experience

“Make Your Own Hangang Ramen” was a hands-on food program held during the 3rd Hangang Three-Sport Festival in Seoul. Because the 2026 event ran from June 5 to 7, this guide explains what was available at the festival, how the ramen experience worked, and what details are confirmed for anyone trying to understand the program after the event.¹

The program sat within a broader summer festival built around swimming, cycling, running, rest, and riverside activities at Ttukseom and Jamsil Hangang Park. Seoul’s official event page described the festival as “a special summer sports festival met at the Hangang in your own speed and style,” and the ramen experience fit that idea by letting participants assemble a cup ramen combination rather than simply buy a fixed product.¹

What “Make Your Own Hangang Ramen” Was

The central idea was simple: visitors could create a personalized cup ramen using Ottogi’s Jin Ramen ingredients. At the site, participants selected from three types of Jin Ramen soup powder and flakes, then combined them to make their own cup ramen. The experience was operated as part of the “Swi-eom Swi-eom Hangang Ramen” program, with tasting also offered on site.²

The program also included a ramen MBTI-style test. Seoul’s public notice framed this as a participatory food program for foreign visitors under the title “making my own Hangang ramen through ramen MBTI,” while Yonhap also listed it among the festival’s side events for foreign tourists.³⁴

For readers searching for Hangang Ramen as a convenience-store-style riverside meal, the key distinction is that this was a festival version of the experience. It was not described as a regular convenience store purchase in the source material. It was a temporary event booth connected to the 2026 Hangang Three-Sport Festival and an Ottogi collaboration.²¹

Where, When, and How Participation Worked

The official Seoul Future Hangang Headquarters event page listed the festival dates as June 5 to 7, 2026, at Ttukseom Hangang Park. It also identified the Hangang ramen experience location as the wheelchair basketball court at Ttukseom Hangang Park, operating from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with free on-site registration.¹

Seoul’s Smart Seoul News notice also said the Hangang ramen experience could be used on site without a separate advance application. That point matters because some festival programs can require reservations, but the official notice presented this ramen activity as available through on-site participation.³

Since the dates have already passed, readers should not treat these times as a current schedule. The confirmed information is that the 2026 edition operated during the three-day festival window from June 5 through June 7. No later repeat date or permanent version of this exact “Make Your Own Hangang Ramen” festival program is included in the provided source material.

The wider festival setting also helps explain why the ramen booth drew attention. Segye Ilbo reported from the final day that participants, family visitors, and foreign tourists gathered around the Ttukseom and Jamsil Hangang Park areas, and that “Make Your Own Hangang Ramen” and the non-alcoholic chicken-and-beer-style program “Haechimaek” received interest especially from foreign tourists.⁵

How It Fit Into the Hangang Festival

The 2026 Hangang Three-Sport Festival was not presented as a strict competition-only event. Yonhap reported that Seoul planned the festival from June 5 to 7 around Ttukseom and Jamsil Hangang Park, with swimming, cycling, running, floating “Haechi Island,” a non-alcoholic chimaek program, and the ramen MBTI-based food experience among the offerings.⁴

Safety staffing was also part of the official festival plan. Yonhap reported that Seoul would place more than 1,000 safety personnel each day and assign 189 safety management staff to the water-crossing section.⁴ Those numbers are not specific to the ramen booth, but they show the scale of planning around the festival where the ramen experience took place.

The city’s broader positioning was cultural as well as recreational. A Seoul official said the Hangang, once mainly a place to look at, “is changing into a living-culture space” where people swim, bike, and enjoy performances and festivals.⁵ In that context, the ramen program was less about ordinary packaged food and more about making a familiar riverside activity into a structured visitor experience.

There is also a separate Hangang ramen convenience-store angle, but it should not be confused with the festival booth. In 2025, Yonhap reported that CU planned ramen-specialized convenience stores called “Ramen Library” at seven Hangang Bus docks, with the first stores opening at Yeouido and Jamsil docks on May 31, 2025, and expansion to five more docks planned during June 2025. Those stores included domestic and international ramen displays, cup ramen model tasting seats, and instant ramen cookers.⁶

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