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Recap of the Seoul International Women’s Day Festival : She Can Travel SEOUL 2026

April 16, 2026

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April 16, 2026

NomadHer’s She Can Travel Seoul 2026 Festival wrapped up successfully this past March.This festival wasn’t just a gathering for people who love travel. It was a place to hear the stories of women who have grown through travel, to experience moments together, and to create new connections with one another.

Around 350 women from around the world joined us. Alongside global women leaders, we were honored to welcome brands, travelers, and creators who share NomadHer’s core value of women empowerment.

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What is the NomadHer ‘She Can Travel Seoul’ Festival?

The NomadHer She Can Travel Seoul 2026 Festival is a space where women from across the world come together to talk about how they move across borders and build their lives, and how these journeys shape self-belief, connection, and the direction of their careers and lives.

What made the 2026 Seoul festival especially memorable was that it wasn’t just a “sit and listen” event. It included a variety of programs designed for participants to talk, interact, and truly connect with one another.The festival was organized around three themes: Inspire Stage, Explore Space, and Build Lab. Each theme was designed to help participants experience “women and travel” in a more three-dimensional way.

Highlights and Key Programs

✔Women leaders across tourism, startups, tech, creative, and social impact

At Inspire Stage, we explored how travel can be far more than rest or leisure. For many women, it becomes a turning point that reshapes mindset, career choices, and even the direction of their lives.

These sessions went beyond simple success stories. Speakers openly shared their barriers, fears, moments when they wanted to give up, and the reasons they were able to move forward again. This created deep empathy and connection across the room.

In particular, the following themes resonated strongly with participants:

  • Women Without Borders
  • Being a Female Founder Is Hard But You’re Not Alone
  • Travel Made Me Stronger

These topics led to concrete, personal conversations about how travel can truly change a woman’s life.

📢Speakers

  • Sarah Deverall (Director, British Council Korea / UK Embassy)
  • Wakamura Akane (Global Marketing Director, Japan Airlines)
  • Gulleora Gureu (YouTuber & influencer sharing stories of accessible travel)
  • Suhyeon Kim (CEO, Soo and Carrots)
  • Yumi Choi (CEO, MuBeans)
  • Jeongeun Kim (CEO, Jemjem Therapeutics)
  • Junghyun Cho (CEO, Hoppers)

📢Speakers

  • Joanne Fan (Solo travel creator)
  • Yeokyung Son (Leader, Waikiki Hula Club)
  • Gaëlle Andriamahatahitry (Travel content creator)
  • KhayJ (Content creator)

A Space Where Women Connected Beyond Language and Nationality

Explore Space was designed as a move-and-experience zone. It was activity-centered, allowing women to naturally connect and socialize beyond language and nationality.

Build Lab was where inspiration turned into action. It was created to help participants connect what they heard on stage to real-life ideas and next steps.

This was also a hands-on space where people could see, hear, and experience things directly. Programs included hula dance performances, taekwondo performances, and a self-defense class, where participants could engage with their bodies, not just their minds.

Brands That Made the Festival Shine

At the She Can Travel Seoul 2026 Festival, around 20 brand booths joined across beauty, wellness, travel, and lifestyle categories.

The booths were curated around categories that matter most to women travelers such as:

  • safety
  • wellbeing and condition
  • ease of mobility
  • lifestyle that fits you

Participants could touch, test, and experience the products and services up close. Each booth was designed not as a simple display, but as an interactive space where people could experience products firsthand.

✔F&B Booths

  • Bytofu
  • Wholesome
  • MuBeans
  • Not to do Natto
  • The Sool Company
  • pesto pesto (pepe pesto)

✔Beauty / Lifestyle Booths

  • Color H
  • Blue Lovina
  • pium
  • Ufulu Swim
  • Pearty

✔Safety / Connection Booths

  • The Guide, All The Time (Jikida)
  • NordVPN

✔Services for Foreign Residents in Korea

  • Medicaddy
  • Lexis Korea
  • KOWORK

The People Who Made It Possible: Sponsors and Volunteers

This festival could not have ended successfully thanks only to the speakers and participants on stage. It was made possible because partners, sponsors, and volunteers who deeply resonated with NomadHer’s mission of women empowerment came together to support the event.

Volunteers helped with everything behind the scenes, from check-in and guiding attendee flow to assisting with program operations and supporting booths, so the entire festival could run smoothly. Because the festival brought together women from different languages and backgrounds, each individual role mattered even more and helped create an environment where everyone could feel safe and comfortable.

'Women’s travel' can be a powerful way to build a stronger life.

The NomadHer Seoul Women Travelers Festival showed that “women’s travel” is not just a hobby or a leisure activity. It can be a powerful way to build a stronger life. Most of all, it created moments where women listened to one another, connected, moved together, and built the confidence to say, “I can do this too.”
To all participants, speakers, brands, sponsors, and volunteers, thank you again from the bottom of our hearts.

NomadHer festivals will continue to be held every year across the world, including Paris, Bali, Busan, and Seoul.

We are currently preparing for our next festivals:

  • October this year in Paris, France
  • January next year in Delhi, India

For updates, please visit our official website or download NomadHer from the App Store.

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