Why Do Onggi and Salmon Meet? The 'Ceramic Making + Salmon Release' Collaborative Experience Draws Attention

Raising Young Salmon in Breathing Onggi Pots and Releasing Them into Taehwa River
Ulsan Ulju-gun Hosts Event Linking Onggi Academy and Taehwa River Ecology Center

Ulsan Ulju-gun Office.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Why do Onggi and salmon meet(?). The 'collaboration event' between Onggi Academy Hall and Taehwagang Ecology Center draws attention.

This is a unique experience event where participants make Onggi, bring it, receive young salmon, raise them, and then release them back into nature.

Ulsan Ulju-gun is conducting an experience program from the 30th until March next year, where young salmon are raised in Onggi and then released into the Taehwagang River.

This linked experience program starts at the Onggi Academy Hall. When participants make Onggi and bring it to the Ecology Center, they are given salmon eyed eggs (eggs with eyes formed) to raise.

Participants take the Onggi containing salmon eggs home and raise them for 30 to 60 days in a cool place such as a balcony. After observing the hatching and growth process of the young salmon, they return the salmon to the Taehwagang Ecology Center.

Onggi is a type of earthenware made by borrowing minimal earth, water, fire, and wind from nature, encompassing rustic and traditional clay pots. The walls of Onggi have tiny air holes that allow external air to pass through, creating an environment where fish can live without separately injecting oxygen.

Young salmon have a yolk sac after hatching, so if the water temperature is maintained low (8~13℃) and water is changed regularly, they grow without needing additional feeding.

This experience program, starting for the first time this year, limits participation to 300 people. The application period at Onggi Academy Hall is from October 30 to November 8, and at Taehwagang Ecology Center from November 9 to November 20.

County Governor Lee Seon-ho said, "This is an experience program combining tradition and ecology by linking Onggi, which embodies the wisdom of our ancestors and nature, with salmon, a representative fish of Taehwagang."