Healthy Festival! gaining vitality and strenglishth for your life from clean nature itself. Moving Festival! making harmony between traditional elegance and modern tastes. Hopeful Festival! experiencing open hearts and delights of all five senses.
Geumsan County is a main place to find Korean Insam(Ginseng), boasting about 80% of the volume of trade in Korean Insam. Thus the Geumsan Insam Festival will let everyone know about Geumsan's well-preserved traditional culture and the wonderful medicinal effects of Insam, one of the world's most important herbs. In doing so, it will offer you an opportunity to improve your life with a fresh experience of Health, Movement and Hope!
Sponsors
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, The Organizing Committee for Visit Korea Year 2001, The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, The Ministry of Environment, The Korea National Tourism Organization, KOTRA (Korea Trade & Investment Promotion Agency), Arirang TV
Period
2001. 9. 14 ∼ 9. 23
Locations
Insam Complex Exhibition Hall, Geumsan Town and other sites in the Geumsan County area, South Chungcheong Province, Korea
Main events
○ Opening Event, The 3rd International Insam Trade Exhibition, Insam-digging tour,
International Folk Invitational Performances
○ The Insam Publicity-Ambassador Beauty Contest, experience of cutting medicinal herbs,
making food with Insam and medicinal herbs, performances of traditional Geumsan folk-arts.
○ Night with Thankfulness and Hope, Candlelight Festival 2001, Nongak (Farmer's Music)
Performance and Playing Contest.
Inquiries to
The Geumsan County Office Culture and Tourism Division
The Organizing Committee for Geumsan Ginsenglish Promotion
Tel : 82-41-750-2225 Fax : 82-41-750-2229
by Visit Korea year 2001
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