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Chungnam’s Wonderful Festival Culture
2009.08.21(금) | CNnews (
chungnamdo@korea.kr)
Many of the local cultural festivals, presenting well the culture and heritage of Chungnam, have been designated 'Wonderful Festivals' by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The festivals include the Boryeong Mud Festival, Ganggyeong Salted Fish Festival of Nonsan, Ginseng Festival in Geumsan, the Ramie Fabric Festival in Seocheon Hansan, the General Lee Sunshin Festival in Asan, and the Heungtaryeong Festival in Cheonan. In addition to national grants, they will benefit from global promotions by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Korea Tourism Organization, Arirang TV and other overseas networks.
Chungnam Province will make the utmost effort to develop and expand “experience programs” for tourists in order that these festivals will keep abreast with other world-renowned festivals.
Boryeong Mud Festival
Site : Daecheon beach, Boryeong-si, Chungcheongnam-do
Boryeong mud is rich in minerals and good for one’s skin. The high quality sea mud is famous enough to make mud cosmetic products such as mud packs, mud soaps, etc. The Boryeong Mud festival is filled with fun where visitors enjoy mud massages with quality mud powder from the Daecheon swimming beach and a nearby tidal flat.
The mud festival offers a unique experience in a grand mud tub.
Children can enjoy a kid-size mud tub, mud sliding, a mud prison and mud hand printing. Also, participants can wrestle with their equally muddy partner, play with hula-hoops in a large mud tub or do the limbo in the slippery tidal flat. When things get too muddy, self-mud massages are available in the massage zone and mud photo contests are good ways to capture some good memories of this messy day.
If you want to take some mud home, there is a hands-on program of making mud soap. If you would like to do something more rigorous, there is a marine-like intensive training course, which is a fun activity to test one’s limit. For those who love to exercise, the beach marathon contest is another attraction. Also, you can enjoy a high-tech mud massage and soak in a tub of sea-water, all for a moderate fee. If you visit Korea during this time, this is a must-see event where you get dirty at the height of Korean summer heat and no one will yell at you.
Ganggyeong Salted Seafood Festival
Site : Around Ganggyeong Pogu (port), Ganggyeong-eup, Nonsan-si, Chungcheongnam-do
As the nation’s largest market of salted seafood, Ganggyeong is responsible for about half of the distribution of salted seafood. Many people visit here each year, even during the off-season, to buy fresh and delicious salted foods at discount prices (30-40%). The salted seafood gives Kimchi a fresher flavor.
During the festival period, visitors themselves can have a valuable experience of making salted seafood as well as Kimchi. Along with these events, participants of the festival can enjoy other diverse food sampling events and feel the landscape and daily life of the sea village.
The most interesting part of the festival will be the experience of making salted food and Kimchi using the seafood from Ganggyeong
firsthand. Kimchi, which visitors will have made, will be put into a bowl so that the visitors can take home.
In addition, there will be many chances for visitors to taste the various kinds of salted seafood in order to get a good sense of the salted seafood and what it is all about. Along with the food events, there will be other events held such as walking along a reef forest, a talent contest for foreigners, an olden-days photo exhibition, a Hwangpodotbae(traditional ship) remodeling and an exhibition on bowls for salted seafood.
Cheonan Heungtaryeong Carnival
Site : Arario Plaza, Cheonan station plaza, and Cheonan Samgeori Park, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do
The Heungtaryeong Carnival is a major festival of the city of Cheonan, which is easily accessible from Seoul by rail, bus, and even subway. It is the nation’s only large-scale dance contest that includes dance, vocal performances, and costumes. Consisting mainly of performances by local and international amateur dancers and professional troupes, the carnival is opened to the general public.
In addition to dance, the carnival also offers street parades, folk games, a Korean traditional wedding experience for international visitors, and various other programs.
Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.
One of the main events of the Cheonan Heungtaryeong Carnival is the parade along a 2.9km stretch in downtown Cheonan. The three-hour event with 1,000 participants offers much to see, including a band, traditional musical performers, pungmul band, dancers and traditional mask dancers. The dancing includes hip-hop, break dance, jazz, and B-boy, as well as demonstration performances by foreign teams from the U.S., China, and Japan.
Since the event will be attended by performance troupes from around the world, an international food court will operate throughout the event period. Finally, visitors will not only learn about wine making, but they can also enjoy free samples of wine pressed from Cheonan’s own grapes.
Hansan Mosi(Ramie Fabric) Festival
Site : All around Hansan Mosi Fabric Hall in Jihyeon-ri, Hansan-myeon, Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
Dry goods made of silk thread that is reeled out of the skin of silk plant grown called Mosi in Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. In Korea, Hansan-myeon, Seocheon-gun, South Chungcheong province is the most famous areas that are known to produce the best quality Mosi.
During the Hansan Mosi Festival, various events will be held under three themes: performance/contest, exhibition, and demonstration/experience. The first theme includes Demonstration of Weaving Play, Mosi Fashion Show, and Hansan Mosi Design Collection.
Under the third theme are the Natural Dyeing, Exhibition of Modern Knitwear made from Hansan Mosi, Fabric Painting, Exhibition of Clothes and Trifling Articles made from Mosi will be held every day during the festival.
In addition, visitors can participate in various programs including Mosi Field Trip where they can culture Mosi themselves, Natural Dying Process, Wearing Hansan Mosi Clothing, Making Flowers and Small Items with Mosi, Weaving Mosi with Visitors. Visitors who want to buy Mosi during the festival can purchase the best quality Mosi inexpensively at souvenir shops and Mosi fabric selling booths.
Chungnam Province will make the utmost effort to develop and expand “experience programs” for tourists in order that these festivals will keep abreast with other world-renowned festivals.
Boryeong Mud Festival
Site : Daecheon beach, Boryeong-si, Chungcheongnam-do
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Boryeong mud is rich in minerals and good for one’s skin. The high quality sea mud is famous enough to make mud cosmetic products such as mud packs, mud soaps, etc. The Boryeong Mud festival is filled with fun where visitors enjoy mud massages with quality mud powder from the Daecheon swimming beach and a nearby tidal flat.
The mud festival offers a unique experience in a grand mud tub.
Children can enjoy a kid-size mud tub, mud sliding, a mud prison and mud hand printing. Also, participants can wrestle with their equally muddy partner, play with hula-hoops in a large mud tub or do the limbo in the slippery tidal flat. When things get too muddy, self-mud massages are available in the massage zone and mud photo contests are good ways to capture some good memories of this messy day.
If you want to take some mud home, there is a hands-on program of making mud soap. If you would like to do something more rigorous, there is a marine-like intensive training course, which is a fun activity to test one’s limit. For those who love to exercise, the beach marathon contest is another attraction. Also, you can enjoy a high-tech mud massage and soak in a tub of sea-water, all for a moderate fee. If you visit Korea during this time, this is a must-see event where you get dirty at the height of Korean summer heat and no one will yell at you.
Ganggyeong Salted Seafood Festival
Site : Around Ganggyeong Pogu (port), Ganggyeong-eup, Nonsan-si, Chungcheongnam-do
As the nation’s largest market of salted seafood, Ganggyeong is responsible for about half of the distribution of salted seafood. Many people visit here each year, even during the off-season, to buy fresh and delicious salted foods at discount prices (30-40%). The salted seafood gives Kimchi a fresher flavor.
During the festival period, visitors themselves can have a valuable experience of making salted seafood as well as Kimchi. Along with these events, participants of the festival can enjoy other diverse food sampling events and feel the landscape and daily life of the sea village.
The most interesting part of the festival will be the experience of making salted food and Kimchi using the seafood from Ganggyeong
firsthand. Kimchi, which visitors will have made, will be put into a bowl so that the visitors can take home.
In addition, there will be many chances for visitors to taste the various kinds of salted seafood in order to get a good sense of the salted seafood and what it is all about. Along with the food events, there will be other events held such as walking along a reef forest, a talent contest for foreigners, an olden-days photo exhibition, a Hwangpodotbae(traditional ship) remodeling and an exhibition on bowls for salted seafood.
Cheonan Heungtaryeong Carnival
Site : Arario Plaza, Cheonan station plaza, and Cheonan Samgeori Park, Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do
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The Heungtaryeong Carnival is a major festival of the city of Cheonan, which is easily accessible from Seoul by rail, bus, and even subway. It is the nation’s only large-scale dance contest that includes dance, vocal performances, and costumes. Consisting mainly of performances by local and international amateur dancers and professional troupes, the carnival is opened to the general public.
In addition to dance, the carnival also offers street parades, folk games, a Korean traditional wedding experience for international visitors, and various other programs.
Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.
One of the main events of the Cheonan Heungtaryeong Carnival is the parade along a 2.9km stretch in downtown Cheonan. The three-hour event with 1,000 participants offers much to see, including a band, traditional musical performers, pungmul band, dancers and traditional mask dancers. The dancing includes hip-hop, break dance, jazz, and B-boy, as well as demonstration performances by foreign teams from the U.S., China, and Japan.
Since the event will be attended by performance troupes from around the world, an international food court will operate throughout the event period. Finally, visitors will not only learn about wine making, but they can also enjoy free samples of wine pressed from Cheonan’s own grapes.
Hansan Mosi(Ramie Fabric) Festival
Site : All around Hansan Mosi Fabric Hall in Jihyeon-ri, Hansan-myeon, Seocheon-gun, Chungcheongnam-do
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Dry goods made of silk thread that is reeled out of the skin of silk plant grown called Mosi in Korea, Japan, China, the Philippines and Indonesia. In Korea, Hansan-myeon, Seocheon-gun, South Chungcheong province is the most famous areas that are known to produce the best quality Mosi.
During the Hansan Mosi Festival, various events will be held under three themes: performance/contest, exhibition, and demonstration/experience. The first theme includes Demonstration of Weaving Play, Mosi Fashion Show, and Hansan Mosi Design Collection.
Under the third theme are the Natural Dyeing, Exhibition of Modern Knitwear made from Hansan Mosi, Fabric Painting, Exhibition of Clothes and Trifling Articles made from Mosi will be held every day during the festival.
In addition, visitors can participate in various programs including Mosi Field Trip where they can culture Mosi themselves, Natural Dying Process, Wearing Hansan Mosi Clothing, Making Flowers and Small Items with Mosi, Weaving Mosi with Visitors. Visitors who want to buy Mosi during the festival can purchase the best quality Mosi inexpensively at souvenir shops and Mosi fabric selling booths.
