Sinan-gun Cancels Tulip Festival for the Safety and Lives of the People

Imja-myeon Tulip Festival Site, Sinan-gun (Photo by Sinan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Park Woo-ryang) announced on the 25th that the 2021 Island Tulip Festival, originally scheduled to be held in mid-April, has been completely canceled.

Initially, the plan was to hold a non-face-to-face online festival while monitoring the spread of COVID-19, but as the spread of COVID-19 has not subsided and ‘silent transmission’ with unidentified infection routes has sporadically occurred after the third wave, the festival was canceled to prevent community spread.

Imjado, where the tulip festival is held, has greatly improved geographic accessibility with the opening of the Imjado Bridge in March, and it is expected that many spring visitors will visit Imjado even though the festival is canceled.

Accordingly, Sinan-gun plans to promote refraining from visiting Imjado and, as last year, remove flower buds before the tulips bloom this year to preemptively block visitors from coming to the site, and operate quarantine posts on site to prepare for COVID-19 prevention.

Governor Park Woo-ryang said, “Although it is regrettable that the festival has been canceled again this year following last year, it was an unavoidable decision to block the spread of infection in the community and to protect the lives and safety of the people. I hope that all citizens will work together so that COVID-19 can end early.”