The Nation's First Tidal Flat Wetland Conservation Area... Muan Hwangto Tidal Flat Festival Held Online

Held for 5 Days from the 23rd to the 27th with Various Programs

[Muan＝Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Oh Hwan-joo] The Muan Hwangto Mudflat Festival, renowned as Jeonnam’s representative ecological festival through various programs held on pristine mudflats and premium yellow soil, will be held as a non-face-to-face online festival to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to Muan County on the 4th, the festival will be held online for five days from the 23rd to the 27th, with a newly established Muan Hwangto Mudflat Festival website and Muan Mudflat TV YouTube channel.

The Muan Hwangto Mudflat Festival began in 2013 with the purpose of preserving the pristine mudflats, which were the first mudflat wetland conservation area designated in Korea, and wisely utilizing them to create a prosperous Muan.

In the past, the festival offered experiences that allowed visitors to feel the vitality of the mudflats, such as octopus catching, mud crab catching, and sea fishing. During the onion harvest season, participants could directly pull onions from nearby onion fields and fill nets, experiencing the hard work of harvesting agricultural products, which helped promote Muan’s excellent agricultural products and foster understanding of rural life.

This year, various programs and events that can be participated in online have been prepared so that people can fully enjoy the vivid fun and excitement they used to feel at the festival site, allowing them to safely and comfortably enjoy the festival from home.

There are three types of home-stay play experience kits: natural dyeing using onions, mudflat candles made from mudflat organisms, and Makgeolli making using rice grown in Muan’s yellow soil and purple sweet potato powder. Also, the Mudflat Dance Challenge, where the whole family can follow choreography to an exciting mudflat song to overcome COVID blues and win prize money, as well as writing and drawing contests themed on mudflats, are among the diverse programs anyone can easily participate in.

Additionally, meal packages made with Muan’s representative specialty, octopus, will be delivered to each household. The Mudflat Food Classroom, where participants can cook during the festival period, and the Mudflat Golden Bell quiz contest about Muan mudflats, where families compete by solving quizzes together, will be operated interactively using the Zoom video conferencing system.

Along with this, travel YouTuber Yeorak’s emotionally rich Muan travel and videos of the Jinseokgi era Muan mudflat experience will soothe the regret of not being able to visit the festival site, introduce Muan’s hidden charms, and a concert full of emotion featuring Harim, Jung In, Hongja, and Phantom Singer winner Son Tae-jin will be available to watch at home against the beautiful Mudflat Land backdrop.

Especially, to coincide with the onion harvest season, live commerce will be operated three times to allow consumers nationwide to conveniently and practically purchase Muan onions and agricultural specialties, promoting the excellence of Muan agricultural products and actively encouraging sales.

Furthermore, while holding the festival online, karaoke rooms will be operated by visiting residents who might otherwise be excluded, communicating with them and sharing the joy of the festival.

The main programs of this online festival include the traveling street karaoke ‘Mudflat Go-Go Show,’ Hwangto Mudflat On Air ‘Joyful 2 PM,’ opening celebration performance, Ontact Mudflat Busking, ‘Muan Online Travel’ with YouTubers, online mudflat cooking class, online Hwangto Mudflat Golden Bell, live commerce, Mudflat Dance Challenge, home-stay play Hwangto Mudflat experience kit, Hwangto Mudflat travel insider contest, and mudflat writing and drawing contests.

Also, events such as subscribing and commenting on Muan Mudflat TV YouTube, mudflat quiz exploration, festival SNS sharing event, festival rumor spreading event, and real-time subscriber comment events will be held to provide various prizes.

Park Il-sang, chairman of the festival promotion committee, stated, “We will leverage the advantages of online, which has no restrictions of time and space, to diversify the participating groups and widely promote the excellence of the clean mudflats and agricultural products from premium yellow soil that Muan is proud of through the festival.”

County Governor Kim San said, “We will do our best to prepare substantial content so that this year’s first online Hwangto Mudflat Festival can provide satisfaction beyond that of the existing face-to-face festival,” and added, “We ask for much interest and viewership for this festival held against the backdrop of Muan’s vast mudflats.”

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