Wanju-gun Cancels Wild & Local Food Festival

[Wanju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Wanju County announced on the 30th that it has made the final decision to cancel the 2021 ‘Wanju Wild & Local Food Festival’ (hereinafter Wapu Festival).

Wanju County made this decision after much deliberation due to the recent rapid resurgence of COVID-19, and instead decided to focus on promoting tourism resources.

The Wapu Festival had established itself as a resident-led festival that stood out for community harmony among numerous festivals nationwide, but it has now been canceled for two consecutive years.

In place of the canceled festival, Wanju County plans to put more effort into promoting its representative festivals and tourism resources to advance the ‘2021-22 Wanju Visit Year’ campaign.

First, the ‘Wanju Travel Experience Kit Show-off Event,’ where five experience kits selected from a contest held for local communities in the first half of the year?including making ginger syrup and ginger shampoo bars?can be tried at home instead of at the festival site, will be held until October.

Additionally, various tourism content will be promoted through diverse methods such as the ‘Wanju Digital Poetry Contest,’ which expresses the charm of Wanju through photos and poems, and the ‘Wanju Love Song Lyrics Contest,’ both accepting submissions until the end of November.

Wanju=Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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