Sinan-gun Cancels Summer Symbol 'Island Hydrangea Festival'

Hydrangea Park on Dochodo Island, Sinan-gun (Photo by Sinan-gun)

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Seo Young-seo] Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do (Governor Park Woo-ryang) announced on the 22nd that it will cancel the ‘Island Hydrangea Festival’ scheduled to be held on the 26th to block the inflow of the virus due to the nationwide spread of multiple chain infections of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

The ‘Island Hydrangea Festival,’ planned to be held for the second time this year, is themed around hydrangeas, which quietly become the main attraction as a single flower in a bouquet, at the 13.14-hectare Hydrangea Park. This place is planted with 140,000 hydrangea plants of various colors and varieties, totaling 2 million flowers, as well as 3,000 various trees including zelkova trees.

Last year’s Island Hydrangea Festival, held over six days, was led by village residents and attracted about 12,000 tourists, becoming a representative island festival of Sinan-gun.

Park Young-sung, Chairman of the Island Hydrangea Festival Promotion Committee, said, “All committee members have taken the lead in preparing the festival to celebrate the symbol of summer, the Island Hydrangea Festival, but it is regrettable that we have decided to cancel the event in hopes that COVID-19 will end soon.”

Park Woo-ryang, Governor of Sinan-gun, said, “This year’s festival was inevitably canceled due to the high possibility of COVID-19 outbreaks in non-metropolitan areas, but we will present a richer festival next year,” and added, “We ask for your great interest in the Hydrangea Park on Dochodo Island in Sinan-gun.”

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