Festivals
Jeonbuk State is a place of festivals
Offering the chance to experience Korean beauty, composure and excitement that will remain in your heart.
Jeonbuk State’s festivals are special, with daily living and traditional cultural activities beautifully coexisting with identity and originality coming to life. Songs and dances that can’t be missed are the true talents of the regional populace, descendants of Mahan and Baekje. The festivals are open at just the right times in 14 different cities and counties. Visitors are welcome both during and outside festival season. The festivals bring forth shining smiles like fully blossomed flowers, offering the surest way to learn about Jeonbuk State.
Global party, united in sound Jeonju International Sori Festival
Jeonju International Sori Festival is a high-quality worldwide music art festival based on
Pansori, Korea’s Intangible Cultural Heritage.
It is designed to promote Korean music to the world, and
exchange diverse musical heritages of many nations though sounds as meditation.
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Immerse yourself in the rich culture of fermentation, set to change the world International Fermented Food Expo, Jeonju
The International Fermented Food Expo in Jeonju, is the only world exposition held on the theme
of fermentation, which generates the forum for a variety of communication and exchange between all sorts of global
cultural heritage in fermentation containing ethnic unique life and culture.
The Jeonju International
Fermented Food Expo means the industrial expo to promote the growth of fermented food industry through the
exhibition of foods and products utilizing fermentation contents in that it tries to publicize the future values
of fermentation as a pronoun for future, life and science as well as discover superior and excellent fermented
foods.
Since this event began in 2003, it has stimulated active and positive interests in fermented foods and
has opened the field of business. Furthermore, this event has hosted international fermentation conferences to
promote the information exchange of fermentation industry.
Thus, this exposition aims to pursue a healthy life,
and so propagate and advertise the superiority of fermented foods as macrobiotic foods all over the world, and
then perform educational functions through stereoscopic three-dimensional exhibitions and experience programs for
fermentation, and further contribute to spreading fermentation culture and activating fermentation industry based
upon integrated marketing and global networks.
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A dynamic feast of symbols Jeonbuk State World Calligraphy Biennale
The Jeonbuk State World Calligraphy Biennale was launched in favor of popularizing and globalizing
Korean calligraphy in 1997. Since then, the art of calligraphy, the quintessence of Chinese character culture in
East Asia, has gained global interest among calligraphers and the public over the years. The infinite potential of
Calligraphy is found here in the Jeonbuk State World Calligraphy Biennale.
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Vivid farming culture experience, Gimje Horison Festival
Gimje Horison Festival has been selected as the Best Culture Tourism Festival eight years in a row, and then was designated as a Korean Representative Fesval, which is held against the background of Byeokgolje as the greatest irrigation facilities in the Orient as well as the Gimje Plain as the greatest plain in our country. On the theme of feeling nostalgia for farming villages within widely vast plains, its horizon is an intangible symbol, although it creates diverse Korean-style images including the valuableness of a land, environment, and nostalgia for childhood memories, so that it provides tourists with infinite dreams and hopes. Especially, as this festival develops the differentiated contents of experiencing farming culture, it is favorably evaluated to satisfy tourists’ five sences. Through rice harvesting, snack eating, grasshopper catching, and torch parades, this festival invokes and awakens reminiscences and nostalgias for farming culture as well as provides growing children with the opportunities for experiencing traditional culture.
The beautiful night sky twinkling in the glow of the fireflies Muju Firefly Festival
The Firefly Festival in Muju is a classic environmental festival of Korea. This firefly themed festival was designated the 322nd natural monument of Korea, helping people appreciate the importance of the environment and culture against the background of pristine nature in Muju. It is also a festival for singles seeking love, as the gestures of the firefly are said to signify the search for love. Taking place on a Seop (temporary bridge) made from logs, mud, and pine branches, it hosts performances like a traditional wedding, traditional nongak (farmers music), and a funeral parade. CNN Go featured a piece on Muju, calling it one of Korea’s most beautiful events, and stated, “Behold the traditions of yore on the Seop bridge festival, part of the Muju firefly festival scheduled to be held from late August to early September every year.”
Substance is more important than appearance Sunchang Source Festival
Jang is the Korean word for paste, and includes Sunchang gochujang (red pepper paste) which is famous for its offerings to the kings during the Joseon era, and here offers this traditional delicacy along with beauty as the main themes. May different programs are offered, such as the Sunchang gochujang (red pepper paste) making event, gochujang bibimbab making, and Meju fermented soybean making. The most popular two programs are the Sunchang Gochujang Parade of offerings to the king and the Sunchang Gochujang National Cooking Competition. The festival was awarded the economic grand prize in the first Korean Festival Events Awards.
Jeonju showcases international film. Jeonju International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival places freedom, independence, and communication first. It
started with the goal to broadly support and proactively develop new concept media like digital, and discovering
exceptional and alternative art, striking a contrast from mainstream movies in esthetics or technique. The Jeonju
International Film Festival is a non-competitive and partially competitive international film festival which
introduces a broad range of movies from new and established directors. Since the first festival in 2000, it has
become a place to communicate with audiences through independent, art, and experimental films, and great responses
have been received throughout the years by all movie lovers the world over.
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A green paradise on earth, Green Barley Field Festival in Gochang
When brightly colored cherry blossoms fully bloom, over one million square meter place are covered with barley in barley field of Hakwon Tourism Farm in Geongeum-myeon, Gochang. It is known as walking the path between the barley fields. Visitors can fully enjoy various performances and experience events while savoring the joy and vibrancy of Spring, thrilling the heart and soul.
Healthy nature dining table, Wanju Wild Food Festival
Delicious dining tables include fresh agricultural products planted and raised in Wanju, all gathered in a local festival. These represent the wild foods: old style rice ball and pumpkin soup, five-colored broth with dumplings, pan-fried pork and potato in Deogam village, and fivecolored jelly and dandelion in Joengam village.
Jeonju’s Hanji harmorny, Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival
The soft glints and scents that waft forth at this Jeonju special event. Famous Korean and international designers participate in the Jeonju Hanji Culture Festival, already boasting a name in fashion circles. Programs include a range of Hanji events, with Hanji crafting, Lamps, and Bracelets, and Jiseong Tug-of-war.
The world festival of love representing Korea
In commemoration of Chunhyang’s love and chastity, Chunhyang Festival has been proud of Korean time-honored tradition from 1931 to the present. Recently, as this festival has been designated as the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism-selected Local Representative Art Festival, it has been established as a Korean representative art festival. Every May, Gwanghalluwon Garden regions, where Chunhyang Festival is opened, is full of visitors participating in all sorts of performances, events, and experiences including ‘Lady Chunhyang Pageant’, which chooses beauties combining tradiitional beauty and talent together. If you have your own lover now, please join Chunhyang Festival held in the city of love, Namwon.
Gimje Horizon Festival
The Gimje Horizon Festival, which began in 1999, is the only festival themed on traditional farming culture among the representative culture and tourism festivals in Korea.
The festival is held around the Byeokgokje Special Stage with the horizon in Korea as the main theme in order to promote Horizon Rice, the specialty of Gimje, as well as widely acknowledge Gimje.
The festival is held at the end of Sep. or in early Oct. as the representative autumn festival in Korea.
The events of the festival include the Horizon Farmers’ Performance Contest, where representative performance groups in Korea participate as the only contest for the Presidential Cup among all festival contests in Korea, Byeokgolje Legend Double Dragon Game, as the representative performance event with residents from Buryang-myeon, Gimje on the basis of Danya Tale, the tale about the construction of Byeokgolje, the main stage of the festival, and Ipseok Tug of War, the traditional folk game praying for good harvest on the 15th of the first lunar month.
Moreover, there is a variety of participatory experience programs for visitors of every age and gender as well as families, including cooking classes and thatched-roof house making. Recently, diverse kinds of things to see are also presented, including an air show.
HomepageJinan Red Ginseng Festival
The Jinan Red Ginseng Festival is held every autumn and presents a variety of events related to red ginseng, as well as the Jinan Highlands Culture Experience Event around the northern part of Maisan Mountain in Jinan, the only special red ginseng district in Korea.
The festival is very popular because of the reliable quality red ginseng and the various kinds of dishes made with it, such as red ginseng for visitors to taste. Interesting experience events are also presented for children to make them familiar with red ginseng, including making red ginseng class and Red Ginseng Land Stamp tour. In addition, there are lots of things to see, including court martial arts, traditional performances, and a trot festival. Visitors can purchase reliable high quality red ginseng products whose quality is guaranteed by the Jinan Governor cheaper.
HomepageGunsan Time Travel Festival
The citizens-led festival, the Gunsan Time Travel Festival, embodies the identity of modern history and culture more intensively by selecting a specific theme every year (The Taste of Modern Gunsan in 2023) and enables visitors to feel the charm and enchantment of time travel through the events using a wide range of contents, including the time travel parade, Gunsan Korean Independence Movement Mission Game, Gunsan Dinosaur Exploration, Our 35,000 Years, Gather Together Time, and Gunsan Harbor Night Pier Concours encompassing the past and the future.
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