Gimhae City Conducts Citizen Survey on Hosting the '2021 Gaya Culture Festival'

Gaya Cultural Festival in Gimhae-si, Gyeongnam - Parade of King Suro's Procession. (Photo by Gimhae-si)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] Gimhae City, Gyeongnam Province announced on the 26th that it will conduct a citizen survey on whether to hold the 2021 Gaya Culture Festival from today until March 7th through the Gimhae City website.

The Gaya Culture Festival is Gimhae City's representative festival, started in 1962 to commemorate the founding spirit of King Suro, who established the Garak Kingdom, to inherit and develop the excellent Gaya culture, and to promote citizen harmony and unity. Last year, the festival was canceled to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Any citizen can participate in the survey, and the survey items include opinions on whether to hold the festival and the reasons.

The reasons for holding the festival include securing the continuity of Gimhae City's representative festival, holding a non-face-to-face festival to overcome COVID blues, guaranteeing activities of artistic groups, and contributing to revitalizing the local economy.

The reasons for canceling the festival include the risk of COVID-19 spreading in the local community, reallocating the festival budget to disaster relief funds, and insufficient festival outcomes compared to the budget invested.

Gimhae City and the Gaya Culture Festival Organizing Committee plan to decide whether to hold the festival in March, referring to the results of the citizen opinion survey.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.