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Cheongwansan Eulalia Festival
Jeollanam-do(Jangheung-gun)

Cheongwansan Eulalia Festival will take place in a broad Eulalia field at Cheongwansan Mountain located in Jangheung-gun, Jeongsan. Major programs of the festival include Eulalia rituals, Miss Eulalia (an impromptu beauty pageant to select the most beautiful women among the visitors to the festival), a music concert on top of the mountain, and environmental protection campaigns.

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Jeju Canola Flower Festival & Udo Trumpet shell Festival
Jeju-do(Seogwipo-si)

The Jeju Canola Flower Festival is one of the most famous festivals in Jeju, and attracts large numbers of visitors every year. In addition to enjoying the vibrant landscape, visitors can participate in a variety of festival events that showcase the unique spirit of Jeju Island. The 2013 Jeju Canola Flower Festival will take place on Udo Island (우도).

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Yeoju Geumsa Oriental Melon Festival
Gyeonggi-do(Yeoju-si)

Yeoju Geumsa Oriental Melon Festival is held in the vicinity of Geumsa Park. Visitors can sample geumsa oriental melons during the festival.

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Pyeongchang Gondeure
Gangwon-do(Pyeongchang-gun)

Pyeongchang Cirsium Setidens Festival is held every year in May in Sanchae Village, Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do Province. Visitors can pick their own cirsium setidents along with other wild greens on nearby mountains and try various kinds of food made from wild greens at the festival venue. Other hands-on programs include making rice cakes and catching trout or marsh snails.

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Jeju Haenyeo Festival
Jeju-do(Jeju-si) , Former Jeju

Jeju Haenyeo Festival aims to celebrate and internationally promote Jeju Island's unique heanyeo culture. As the festival takes place at the Haenyeo Museum, visitors will be able to learn all about haenyeo at a glance. Creative stage performances and hands-on activities revolve around the festival's main theme, "Mother's sumbisori, in the hearts of people all over the world." Presentations of traditional and modern day haenyeo are well blended in an effort for the festival to grow and become an internationally celebrated festival.

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Sangju Story Festival
Gyeongsangbuk-do(Sangju-si)

Sangju-si in Gyeongsangbuk-do is known as Gamgoeul (literally "persimmon village") since it exports a large quantity of persimmons annually. Naturally, there are many local stories related to the fruit. Every autumn as persimmons ripen, the city holds a festival to celebrate its specialty and to continue the tradition of telling its Gamgoeul stories. The Sanju Gamgoeul Story Festival puts on major programs, including an opening ceremony, performances, and various hands-on experience programs.

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Hongseong Historical Person Festival
Chungcheongnam-do(Hongseong-gun)

Having modified its name from Hongseong Naepo Culture Festival, Hongseong Historical Person Festival is held in Hongjueupseong Fortress every September, with the aim of become an educational festival. Hongseong is the hometown of many historical persons in the areas of literature, martial arts and art such as General Choe Yeong, a great commander during the Goryeo period, Seong Sam-mun, a scholar-official of the early Joseon era, General Kim Jwa-jin, who won the Battle of Cheongsanni against Japan, Han Yong-un, who was a resistance fighter to Japanese influence with his fidelity and integrity, Han Seong-jun, a folk dancer, and Lee Ung-no, who established Korean painting’s creativity and identity. The festival offers historical person-related programs that include themed performances, histories of the persons, and their life story, giving a unique experience. Excellent local food from Hongseong can also be eaten at the festival site.

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Samcheok King’s Cosmos Festival
Gangwon-do(Samcheok-si)

The Samcheok King’s Cosmos Festival is held around late September to early October to attract more visitors who come to see autumn foliage at nearby tourism attractions such as Hwanseongul Cave, Daegeum Cave, Cheoneunsa Temple and more. The cosmos fields, spanning over 120,000㎡, along with sculptures made with flowers, are well-blended within a friendly farming area. The festival is one of the representative autumn festivals to enjoy autumn foliage. In addition, nearby attractions such as Jungyeongmyo Grave, Daegeumgul Cave and Hwanseongul Cave are famous as tourism attractions.

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Yeosu Hyangiram Sunrise Festival
Jeollanam-do(Yeosu-si)

Hyangiram Sunrise Festival is an annual overnight festival that begins on New Year's Eve. It takes place at the historic Hyangiram Hermitage, which was built in year 644. As the New Year's Day dawns, visitors can witness the sun rise above the horizon from Hyangiram, which literally means "a hermitage facing the sun."

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Goseong Sunrise Festival
Gangwon-do(Goseong-gun)

Located in the northernmost part of Korea, Goseong, Gangwon-do, is a special place from which to view the sunrise on New Year’s Day. It is also known as the starting point for the Geumgangsan Mountain trip to North Korea, so the sunrise festival features a variety of programs that bring together North Koreans living in the South, Goseong residents, and tourists in a ceremony to wish for reunification, a bell-striking ceremony, and the release of wish-balloons into the sky. The Sunrise Festival is held on January 1 on Hwajinpo Beach, a famous film location of the TV drama Autumn in My Heart. Visitors can take part in hands-on programs such as hope-balloon flying and a candle lighting ceremony. Afterwards, there will be a shamanistic ceremony called gut to wish for reunification, followed by music by a military band, a drum combo, and folk performances.

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