Daejeon Convention Center: parking, exhibition halls and meeting rooms

How much does parking cost at Daejeon Convention Center?

Parking at 대전컨벤션센터 (Daejeon Convention Center, DCC) is free for the first 30 minutes for turnaround vehicles, then 500 won per 15 minutes, capped at 10,000 won per day. Holders of a national merit or disability card, and drivers of light or eco-friendly vehicles, pay half.

Parking questions go to the operations support team's parking office on 042-250-1570. The figures come from the venue's official parking page.

What changed in the July 2025 parking revision?

DCC parking effectively doubled on 1 July 2025. The Daejeon Tourism Organization, which runs the car parks, published the amended rules on 25 June 2025: the per-interval rate and the daily cap both doubled, the monthly pass went up fivefold, and free holiday opening ended. Many guides still quote the old numbers, so a visitor who plans around them will be short at the barrier.

The stated reason was to ease congestion in the two car parks and bring rates up to date. The original notice is here.

Can I park at Exhibition Hall 1 and walk to Exhibition Hall 2?

You can walk between them, but the car parks are run entirely separately: 403 spaces at 제1전시장 (Exhibition Building 1) and 734 at 제2전시장 (Exhibition Building 2), 1,137 in total. The two buildings have different street addresses, so check which one your event is in before you set the navigation.

• Exhibition Building 1: 107 Expo-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon · 403 spaces
• Exhibition Building 2: 87 Expo-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon · 734 spaces
• Main line 042-250-1100 / bookings 042-250-1113

The car parks run every day of the year, but entry and exit are blocked between 22:00 and 07:00. If your event runs late, you cannot leave the car overnight.

How many free parking passes does an event organiser get?

DCC issues free parking passes to organisers in proportion to the space they rent, and the allocation differs sharply between the two buildings. All four exhibition halls in Building 1 come to 20 passes in total; in Building 2 each hall alone is worth 20, so all four give 80.

How big is the Exhibition Building 1 hall, and how many booths fit?

The four halls of Exhibition Building 1, numbered 109 to 112, total 2,520 m² and hold up to 110 booths at the standard 3×3 m size. Partition walls let the four be combined or split, and the lobby adds a further 640 m².

The ceiling is 10.3 m, but nothing may be built higher than 9 m. The floor is rated to 2.5 tonnes per m² and finished in deluxe tile. Floor boxes carry 380V three-phase power, water and drainage, compressed air, and an LNG gas line — useful for demonstrations or cooking. Internet, though, is a single port per hall.

How is Exhibition Building 2 different from Building 1?

Building 2's four halls total 10,150 m² and 520 booths — four times Building 1. The floor takes 5 tonnes per m², double Building 1, and is unreinforced concrete rather than tile, which is why heavy industrial exhibitions almost always go here.

One number here is regularly misquoted. The build height limit in Building 2 is 10 m. The 17.5 m figure that circulates is the ceiling height of Hall 4; halls 1 to 3 are 12 m. Hall 4 really is the tallest space, but that is headroom, not permission to build to it.

Support space is more generous than in Building 1: two VIP rooms on the ground floor (advance request required), four organiser offices on the second, three support offices, and a nursing room and a first-aid room on the ground floor. Internet runs to six ports per hall, six times Building 1. The lobby is 640 m² but no booths may be set up in it.

How many people fit in the Grand Ballroom and the Conference Hall?

Grand Ballroom rooms 201 and 202 are 1,024 m² each and 2,042 m² combined, seating 800 classroom-style or 1,500 theatre-style. A single room seats 400 classroom-style or 600 theatre-style. Conference Hall 301 is a 304 m² auditorium with 237 fixed seats, so its layout cannot be changed.

Three details from the official listing are worth knowing. The ballroom is 9.2 m high with a 6.8 m stage, and the stage itself measures 24 m wide by 6 m deep by 1 m high. Room 201 has five simultaneous-interpretation booths, enough to run an international conference in one space. And the centre owns 790 stackable chairs, so the 1,500-seat theatre configuration means bringing additional seating in.

Projection differs a lot by room. Room 201 has a 300-inch 30,000-lumen laser projector plus a 611-inch LED wall measuring 15 m by 4 m; room 202 has 250-inch and 300-inch projectors. The Conference Hall has one 300-inch 13,500-lumen laser projector.

Which meeting room should I book?

Headcount is a reliable guide: around 20 people means a small meeting room, around 50 a medium one, and 100 or more the large meeting rooms or the Grand Ballroom. What catches people out is which rooms can be joined together.

Two things are worth knowing in advance. Small rooms 206 to 211 come with microphones only when three rooms are joined, so a single-room booking means speaking unaided or ordering equipment separately. And the 798 m² shared lobby outside the large meeting rooms is charged separately if you use it for coffee breaks or booths.

For the third-floor rooms in Building 2, read the venue's wording literally: the combine-or-split field says they cannot be subdivided, and a theatre layout needs to be agreed in advance. That means each room is used whole, not that the three can be merged.

Why does the registered seat count differ from the venue's own figures?

Korea's performing-arts registry (KOPIS) lists Daejeon Convention Center at 1,737 seats. That is the Grand Ballroom's 1,500 plus the Conference Hall's 237, and both match the venue's own published figures exactly. The other three halls are registered with no seats at all.

A zero is the honest answer for an exhibition hall, which is sized in booths and square metres rather than seats. The consequence is that when a concert takes place in an exhibition hall, its real capacity is nowhere in the 1,737 figure. The registry also spells the Conference Hall differently from the venue itself. The underlying record is on our venue page for Daejeon Convention Center.

How do I book an exhibition hall, and when is payment due?

Regular applications for the exhibition halls are taken in the second week of May and again in the second week of October, with concert bookings handled separately in July. The booking line is 042-250-1306. A standard hall day runs 08:00 to 20:00, twelve hours.

Payment comes in three parts: 20% on signing, 30% ninety days before the rental starts, and the remaining 50% seven days before. Cancellation penalties are worth checking at the same time.

Catering goes through the designated supplier, Lotte City Hotel Daejeon (042-250-1588~9). Free Wi-Fi is provided as "DCC Free wifi"; wired internet is ordered separately from the designated partner, Sowon Tech (042-254-0079). Banners may only hang from the battens provided in the lobby and halls — tape and nails on walls are not allowed.

In short

1. Parking is free for the first 30 minutes, then 500 won per 15 minutes, up to 10,000 won a day. These rates took effect on 1 July 2025; anything quoting one free hour, 500 won per 30 minutes, or a 5,000 won cap is out of date.
2. The two buildings are separate addresses with separate car parks, 403 and 734 spaces, and no entry or exit between 22:00 and 07:00.
3. Choose by scale: Exhibition Building 2 for large industrial shows at 10,150 m² and 520 booths, the Grand Ballroom for conferences of around a thousand at 1,500 theatre-style seats, and the Conference Hall for lecture-led events at 237 fixed seats.

Rates, areas and capacities were checked in August 2026 against the facilities and parking pages of the Daejeon Convention Center website and the Daejeon Tourism Organization notice of 25 June 2025. Seat-count comparisons use the KOPIS registry. Rates and operating hours change, so call 042-250-1100 before you travel or book.