Selected as "Global Premium Festival"
"Resident-led Festival and Tradition Integration"
The ‘Ulsan Onggi Festival,’ a cultural tourism festival representing Ulsan, has solidified its status by being selected for the Korea Festival Contents Grand Prize for nine consecutive years.
Ulju-gun announced on the 26th that the Ulsan Onggi Festival received the Grand Prize in the Global Premium Festival category at the ‘13th Korea Festival Contents Grand Prize 2025.’
Lee Soon-geol, Ulju County Governor, and other officials are taking a commemorative photo celebrating the Ulsan Onggi Festival winning the Korea Festival Content Award for nine consecutive years.
The Korea Festival Contents Grand Prize awards local festival stakeholders who have contributed to the development of the industry to foster pride in festival content industries and encourage Korean regional festivals to step onto the global stage.
At this award ceremony, the Ulsan Onggi Festival received the Grand Prize in the Global Premium Festival category again this year, following last year. Previously, it won the Grand Prize in the Festival Economy category in 2017 and 2018, the Festival Contents Grand Prize in 2019 and 2020, the Non-face-to-face Festival Grand Prize in 2021, the Festival Economy category Grand Prize in 2022, and the Festival Arts/Tradition category Grand Prize in 2023.
Marking its 24th year last year, the Ulsan Onggi Festival was held under the slogan ‘Welcome to Onggi Village’ around Oegosan Onggi Village in Onyang-eup, Ulju-gun. As a representative festival of Ulju-gun, boasting history and tradition, it was selected as a Promising Festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2016 and 2017, a Cultural Tourism Promotion Festival in 2018 and 2019, and a Cultural Tourism Festival in 2020, becoming a leading festival representing Korea.
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Ulju-gun cited the harmony and cooperation of Ulju residents and Onggi Village inhabitants as the biggest success factors of the ‘2024 Ulsan Onggi Festival.’
By organizing a resident planning group to strengthen programs planned and operated by residents, and running eco-friendly and local economy revitalization programs, it was well received for implementing a resident-led festival and a sustainable festival that values the process.
County Governor Lee Soon-geol said, “The Ulsan Onggi Festival, the only cultural tourism festival in Ulsan, has been widely recognized as a representative festival of Korea by winning the Korea Festival Contents Grand Prize for nine consecutive years. We will continue to develop content using onggi and advance the festival based on tradition and onggi culture.”
This year’s Ulsan Onggi Festival is scheduled to be held for three days from May 3 to 5 at Oegosan Onggi Village in Onyang-eup, Ulju-gun.
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