Chungcheongbuk-do(Goesan-gun)
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.