HWACHEON, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With the 2019 Hwacheon Sancheoneo (mountain trout) Ice Festival continuing to attract a significant number of visitors every day, both domestic and international agencies are seeking to follow suit. According to Hwacheon-gun in Gangwon Province, officials from the city of Norilsk in Russia will be visiting the festival between [...]
HWACHEON, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The ongoing 2019 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival has lured more than 1 million visitors for the 13th consecutive year, cementing its status as the most iconic winter festival in South Korea. The annual ice fishing festival kicked off Jan. 5 on a frozen river in the remote mountainous county [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — With the opening of the Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival just around the corner, Hwacheon-gun in Gangwon Province is hosting various festivities starting this weekend. The county will hold a lumináre festival on Saturday, lighting more than 27,000 lamps shaped like mountain trout, for the good wishes of [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Organizers of the Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival have continued their steady push towards the grand opening on January 5 at Hwacheon, Gangwon Province. And the recent cold that swept the country is helping to freeze solid the main grounds that will be used for ice fishing during [...]
HWACHEON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The original ‘Santa Claus’ from Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland will be visiting Hwacheon, Gwangwon Province as the city prepares for the Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice Festival scheduled for next month. Hwacheon-gun announced that Santa Claus and his elves will be visiting Santa’s Post Office for the [...]
HWACHEON, South Korea, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Hwacheon, a county in Gangwon Province, revealed that it will host this year’s Tomato Festival from August 12 to August 15. The 2015 festival was visited by some 115,000 tourists, who purchased over 150-million-won worth of the county’s agricultural products, creating estimated economic spinoffs of 4.2 billion [...]
HWACHEON, Dec.14 (Korea Bizwire) – Lamps shaped like trout will be lit on December 19, before the 2016 Trout Festival opens on January 9 next year. The city of Hwacheon decorated an entire street near the festival site with the trout-shaped lanterns, and officials announced that they would be lighting them up at 6 p.m. [...]
HWACHEON, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Hwacheon Province announced that it generated 4.2 billion won’s worth of economic activity through its Tomato Festival, which was held earlier this summer. According to provincial officials, 115,000 tourists visited the festival, which was held from July 30 to August 2, including 800 foreigners. Due to the many visitors, [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The teenage North Korean soldier who defected to South Korea this week left his barracks earlier this month and finally crossed the border after a week-long journey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Tuesday. On Monday, the 19-year-old lowest-ranking North Korean enlistee defected to the South through the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – As a surprising number of local governing bodies around Korea are currently developing or planning cable car installations in their district to boost tourism, hoping to follow in the footsteps of a successful project in Tongyeong, several environmental organizations are opposing the idea, saying that the attractions are not without [...]