{"id":16698,"date":"2025-01-13T14:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=16698"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T07:41:43","slug":"popular-hwacheon-ice-fishing-festival-opens-in-gangwon-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=16698","title":{"rendered":"Popular Hwacheon ice fishing festival opens in Gangwon Province"},"content":{"rendered":"

HWACHEON,\u00a0South Korea<\/span>, Jan. 13, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — The 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, one of South Korea’s<\/span> most popular winter events, kicked off last Saturday in the northeastern county of Hwacheon, offering nearly a month of ice fishing and seasonal activities.<\/p>\n

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Visitors enjoyed the bare-handed experience program at the 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, on Jan. 11, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The festival, set to run through Feb. 2<\/span>, opened in the remote mountain town in Gangwon Province, located just 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border and about 90 km northeast of Seoul<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the festival, participants try to catch “sancheoneo,” a species of mountain trout, through holes cut in the surface of a vast frozen river, as well as take part in barehanded fishing, sledding and other events.<\/p>\n

As early as 8:30 a.m.<\/span> last Saturday, the frozen Hwacheon stream was crowded with hundreds of visitors clad in thick winter jumpers who gathered to catch the sancheoneo.<\/p>\n

The visitors carefully lowered their rods into the ice holes, with some of them soon erupting in cheers as they reeled in the rod with freshly caught trout.<\/p>\n

“I came early in the morning from Seoul<\/span> to celebrate my kid’s birthday,” a participant, identified only by his last name Kim, said. “I come every year but this year I plan to enjoy the Sancheoneo Ice Festival as well as a nighttime concert at Seon Deung Street.”<\/p>\n

Outdoor grilling areas were set up nearby for tourists to barbecue the fish.<\/p>\n

The Hwacheon festival has attracted more than 1 million visitors almost every year since its launch in 2003, making headlines worldwide with thousands of tourists also taking part in other events at the festival such as bare-hand fishing and sledding.<\/p>\n

The festival turned Hwacheon, with a population of just 23,000, into a global wintertime festival city of South Korea<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In 2011, a leading global news organization introduced the festival as one of the world’s seven wonders of winter.<\/p>\n

Last January, the New York Times<\/span> named the event one of five “must-see festivals in Asia<\/span>” in winter that year.<\/p>\n

The festival attracts around 100,000 foreigners annually.<\/p>\n

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HWACHEON,\u00a0South Korea<\/span>, Jan. 13, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ — The 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, one of South Korea’s<\/span> most popular winter events, kicked off last Saturday in the northeastern county of Hwacheon, offering nearly a month of ice fishing and seasonal activities.<\/p>\n

\n

\"Visitors <\/a>
Visitors enjoyed the bare-handed experience program at the 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, on Jan. 11, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The festival, set to run through Feb. 2<\/span>, opened in the remote mountain town in Gangwon Province, located just 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border and about 90 km northeast of Seoul<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In the festival, participants try to catch “sancheoneo,” a species of mountain trout, through holes cut in the surface of a vast frozen river, as well as take part in barehanded fishing, sledding and other events.<\/p>\n

As early as 8:30 a.m.<\/span> last Saturday, the frozen Hwacheon stream was crowded with hundreds of visitors clad in thick winter jumpers who gathered to catch the sancheoneo.<\/p>\n

The visitors carefully lowered their rods into the ice holes, with some of them soon erupting in cheers as they reeled in the rod with freshly caught trout.<\/p>\n

“I came early in the morning from Seoul<\/span> to celebrate my kid’s birthday,” a participant, identified only by his last name Kim, said. “I come every year but this year I plan to enjoy the Sancheoneo Ice Festival as well as a nighttime concert at Seon Deung Street.”<\/p>\n

Outdoor grilling areas were set up nearby for tourists to barbecue the fish.<\/p>\n

The Hwacheon festival has attracted more than 1 million visitors almost every year since its launch in 2003, making headlines worldwide with thousands of tourists also taking part in other events at the festival such as bare-hand fishing and sledding.<\/p>\n

The festival turned Hwacheon, with a population of just 23,000, into a global wintertime festival city of South Korea<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In 2011, a leading global news organization introduced the festival as one of the world’s seven wonders of winter.<\/p>\n

Last January, the New York Times<\/span> named the event one of five “must-see festivals in Asia<\/span>” in winter that year.<\/p>\n

The festival attracts around 100,000 foreigners annually.<\/p>\n

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