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Goseong Myeongtae Festival

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Geojin-ri, Geojin-eup, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do (강원도 고성군 거진읍 해오름해변길 125)

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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

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End date: 20151101
Venue: Geojinhang Port
Start date: 20151029
Venue info: 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

Updated 2019.11.22

Introduction

Programs

[Official Event]
- 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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Geojin-ri, Geojin-eup, Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do

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