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▲This photo, provided by Gangneung City, shows the poster of the Gangneung wine festival. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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▲This photo, provided by Gangneung City, shows the poster of the Gangneung Noodle festival. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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▲This photo, provided by Yonhap News Agency, shows Wolhwa street in Winter. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
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| ▲This photo, provided by Yonhap News Agency, shows Wolhwa street decorated with lights. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, December 1 (Yonhap) -- A rich December festival is being held in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, where there was no winter festival, and it is gaining a lot of attention whether it will succeed or not.
There were critics that there are no other special winter festivals except the Gyeongpo and Jeongdongjin Sunrise Festival which ends in a day.
Winter festival in Gangneung starts off on December 9 with the "2022 Gangneung Wine Festival" which was postponed due to the Itaewon tragedy.
The Wine Festival which will continue until December 12 will be held at the Wolhwa Street, where the Jungang Market, a spot well known to the visitors. is located.
This is the first Gangneung Wine Festival.
Visitors will be able to spend their year end drinking wine with all the foods at the Jungang market.
There will be enjoyable events such as wine related booths, wine tasting zone, quiz and experience, performance and more.
However, id is mandatory for visitors to enjoy the festival.
"If you visit Gangneung filled with wine in December, the year end, you will be able to meet Gangneung which is warm in the body and the heart," said an official from the Gangneung Culture & Arts Foundation on Thursday.
The "2022 Gangneung Noodle Festival" which was scheduled to be held in November was postponed due to the Itaewon tragedy and it will be held at the same venue of the Wine Festival for three days starting from December 16.
Gangneung is a famous tourist attraction spot for visitors who come to try different noodles which are well known.
The festival is being held for the first time to let people know about the special noodle of Gangneung, develop and expand new tourism food products.
The event will not only have cooking shows for Gangneung specialties noodles starting from the dough till the dish is ready, but also have a live cooking show of famous chefs, and samples of noodles from different countries.
Making a huge Handpulled Dough Soup event will be held during the opening ceremony as an official event.
In addition, various side events such as a free tasting of own noodle dish, pulling out noodles fast and a fast-eating mukbang show will also be held.
An official from Gangneung City said, "We planned for this festival as many tourists visiting Gangneung are looking for local restaurants related to noodles."
The "2022 Gangneung Christmas Winter Festival," which opened on November 27 with the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, will continue for 43 days until January 8 of 2023 in Wolhwa Street, Anmok Beach, and Yeongok-myeon in Gangneung.
The festival is held under the theme "Happy Gangneung, Christmas Gangneung," and as a festival which delivers happiness promoting Gangneung as a city people want to visit.
The organizers plan to make Gangneung a famous winter tourist destination through Christmas festivals with citizens and tourists.
Wolhwa Street, the festival venue, decorated Gangneung bright with street lights, including a festival gate, a 500-meter snowflake banner tunnel, a large decorative tree and an armed tree, and a 350-meter Milky Way tunnel.
In particular, an experience booth event will be held where anyone from children to the elderly can feel a fun and exciting festival atmosphere, giving tourists and citizens another fun and memory on December 23~25.
If these festivals end in success bringing attention to Gangneung, with dry winter festivals, it is expected to be another attraction that will help revitalize the local economy.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Dowon Kim.)
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