HWACHEON, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwacheon County in Gangwon Province is speeding up preparations for the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival which has already been delayed by warm weather. The festival, after being delayed once due to warm weather, was expected to open on January 11 before it being delayed for the second time [...]
HWACHEON, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Hwacheon County in Gangwon Province invited Santa Claus and elves from the original Santa Village in the Finnish city of Rovaniemi for a three-day visit from last Friday to Sunday. The county decided to hold such event as it is home to the one and only Santa Claus Post [...]
HWACHEON, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival will be open to foreign visitors on Saturday, one week ahead of its formal opening, county officials said Friday. The world famous festival was originally scheduled to kick off on Saturday on a frozen river in the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, about [...]
HWACHEON, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The opening of the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival is just nine days away. The annual ice fishing festival is scheduled to take place for 23 days from Jan. 11 to Feb. 2 on a frozen river in the Gangwon Province county of Hwacheon, about 120 kilometers northeast of [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The festive mood is already heating up in Hwacheon, a Gangwon Province county, as it is stepping up preparations to host an annual ice fishing festival next month. With the opening of the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival just 10 days away, the central street of Hwacheon, about 120 [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A lighting ceremony will be held Saturday evening ahead of the 2020 Hwacheon Sancheoneo (mountain trout) Ice Festival, which kicks off on January 4. The lighting ceremony of 27,000 lamps and fish-shaped lights in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province, is expected to be the higlight of a street party to [...]
HWACHEON, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Santa Claus Post Office in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province has attracted close to 10,000 visitors thus far this year. The county has been running the post office jointly with the town of Rovaniemi in Finland, known as Santa Claus’ hometown, since 2015. At the Santa Claus Post Office, visitors [...]
HWACHEON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2019 Hwacheon Tomato Festival opened Thursday afternoon in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province. This year’s festival saw its curtain rise with “Find the Golden Ring,” the festival’s main event. As part of the program, participants have to find gold rings hidden in discarded tomatoes, tomatoes that are not commercially [...]
HWACHEON, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2019 Hwacheon Tomato Festival will be held in Hwacheon County, Gangwon Province, from August 1 to 4. This year, in particular, the festival is being organized for the first time in 17 years under the leadership of a committee consisting of residents. Until last year, Hwacheon County and [...]
HWACHEON, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival that just ended has become the country’s biggest winter festival by attracting an all-time high number of visitors. The annual ice fishing festival that kicked off on Jan. 5 on a frozen river in the remote county of Hwacheon, about 120 kilometers northeast of [...]