Goesan Red Pepper Festival
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Overview
The Goesan Red Pepper Festival is held during harvest season to promote the excellence of peppers grown in Goesan, a major production area of Korea. The festival has numerous programs, including pepper-picking and fish-catching contest (using the bare hands), pepper recipe competition, pepper cooking contest, and garden pepper planting.
Brightly colored and full of flavor, Korean peppers are a particularly popular agricultural product. This is a fun festival where visitors can taste or buy Korean peppers, and talk with farmers.
Main Event
Prayer ritual for a rich year and residents' peace in the county, opening performance, KBS National singing Contest, recreations, etc.
Exhibition
Exhibition of worldwide pepper, exhibition of food made with pepper, etc.
Hands-on program
Catching weatherfishes with their bare hands, pepper fishing, pepper kite-flying, culture experience of multi-cultural family, experience center for well-being health, etc.
Utilization information
Opening hours, closed days and other practical details.
- Start date
- 2016.09.01
- End date
- 2016.09.04
- Venue
- Sports Complex, Mini football field, Culture & Sports Center, Dongjincheon Stream area
- Venue info
- [Bus]
From Dong Seoul Bus Terminal, take an intercity bus to Goesan Terminal.
From Goesan Terminal, take a taxi to Sports Complex. (종합운동장; Jonghap Undongjang) (5min) - Side events
- Goesan Red Pepper Agricultural Show, Restaurants with sampling dished with red peppers, Goesan tourism PR event, Local specialty stalls, Photo contest zone, etc.
* Programs and schedule subject to change. - Admission
- Free
(Seperated charge for activities and purchasing products)
Updated 2017.04.03
Introduction
Brightly colored and full of flavor, Korean peppers are a particularly popular agricultural product. This is a fun festival where visitors can taste or buy Korean peppers, and talk with farmers.
Main Event
Prayer ritual for a rich year and residents' peace in the county, opening performance, KBS National singing Contest, recreations, etc.
Exhibition
Exhibition of worldwide pepper, exhibition of food made with pepper, etc.
Hands-on program
Catching weatherfishes with their bare hands, pepper fishing, pepper kite-flying, culture experience of multi-cultural family, experience center for well-being health, etc.
Programs
-Camping in the forest + Garden tour (reservation required.)
-Etc.
[Lavender Story]
-Picking lavender leaves
-Producing lavender scented perfume
-Etc.
[Herb Lesson]
-Making lavender perfume, soap
-Baking lavender pizza
-Etc.
[Event]
-Drawing contest
-Photo contest
-Etc.
* Programs and schedule subject to change.
Access
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92, Imkkeokjeong-ro, Goesan-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do
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