Namwon City to Hold Agricultural and Specialty Products Festival Alongside Chunhyang Festival

Until May 6...
One Food and Namwon Loach Zones to Operate

Namwon City in North Jeolla Province will hold a festival for agricultural and specialty products along with the Chunhyang Festival from April 30 to May 6 at the Gwanghallu Yocheon riverside and Yocheon water scenery facilities.

According to the city on April 18, this event will serve as a comprehensive festival for Namwon’s specialty products. It will be organized into three zones: sales, processing, and hands-on experiences for agricultural and specialty products; sales and promotion of processed products made from passion fruit (One Food); and promotion and experiences related to Namwon loach.

Namwon City will hold a festival for agricultural and specialty products along with the Chunhyang Festival from the 30th of this month to the 6th of next month at the Gwanghallu Yocheon riverside and Yocheon water scenery facilities. Provided by Namwon City

At the agricultural and specialty products section, 32 booths will offer seasonal Namwon produce such as paprika and lettuce, as well as processed goods like Gim Bugak and rice flour bread at a 10% discount. Visitors can also enjoy black pork barbecue tastings, lettuce planting experiences, a family cooking contest, and a rice processing photo zone.

In the One Food zone, more than 20 types of passion fruit processed products?including passion fruit sandwiches and passion fruit energy bars?will be available for purchase. There will also be a passion fruit cooking class, fresh cream bread tasting, mini-games, and a photo zone featuring the Baekhyangi character.

In addition, the city will operate a Namwon loach event zone, highlighting the ingredient used in Namwon’s signature dish, Chueotang. Activities will include loach catching experiences, bulgogi tastings, Chueotang samplings, and aquaponics planter making, all as part of a large-scale campaign to promote Namwon loach to tourists.

The festival was well received by many citizens and visitors last year, and this year it will again feature Namwon’s unique agricultural and specialty products under the “3Go” theme: EatGo, PlayGo, BuyGo.

Kim Yeonju, head of the Namwon Agricultural Technology Center, said, “Through the agricultural and specialty products festival held alongside the Chunhyang Festival, we will focus on promoting Namwon’s unique strengths.”