Goseong Myeongtae Festival 고성명태축제
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To ensure a good haul and community prosperity, this festival is held at Geojinhang Port, known as the primary place of Pollack fish in Korea. The festival includes numerous hands-on events such as a sea festival, a cultural festival, and a local culture experience.
The festival has helped the city to promote their local seafood, farm products and other specialties, thus contributing to the growth of the local economy.
Utilization information
・Finished : 20151101
・Location : Geojinhang Port
・Beginning : 20151029
・Location : From Dong Seoul Bus Terminal (Subway Line 2, Gangbyeon St.), take a bus for Daejin.
On the way to Daejin, the bus will make a stop at Ganseong-eup.
The whole Geojinhang Port, where the bus stops, is used as the festival venue.
Bus info: travel time: 4hrs 40min / 25,000 won / 6 times daily
Introduction
The festival has helped the city to promote their local seafood, farm products and other specialties, thus contributing to the growth of the local economy.
Programs
- Ritual ceremony and ritual for a big catch of Myeongtae
- Pre-ceremony performance and opening/closing ceremony
- Performance and fireworks
[Performance Event]
- Army/Navy band performance
- Goseong culture and art concert
- 7080 Concert with Goseong Myeongtae
- Singing contest
- Street event
[Myeongtae Event]
- Myeongtae tuho (throwing myeongtae), weighting myeongtae, myeongtae-gui hanmadang
- Myeongtae roulette event, myeongtae auction experience, eating dishs made with myeongtae, etc.
- Eating Myeongtae-gangjeong, Myeongtae Olympic, making quatrain for Goseong Myeongtae
[Hands-on programs]
- Experience of port culture and maritime experience
- Catching live fish bare-handed
- Air kids land
- Promotional hall and tour
- Sampling Goseong’s representative dish
- Fishery and dried fish market
- Regional specialty products market
- Goseong Myeongtae market
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