Double Festival Victory "What a Celebration"... Seongju-gun Stands Tall as a Leading Festival Hub in Korea
Best Festival Award 1st Place Grand Prize and Festival Mascot Contest 1st Place Winner
Gyeongbuk Seongju-gun is taking a commemorative photo after receiving the Grand Prize at the Korea Best Festival Awards at the Korea Representative Festival Expo.
View original image[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yeo Jong-gu] Seongju-gun, Gyeongbuk announced on the 7th that it won first place grand prize in the Korea Best Festival Award (basic local government category) and first place in the festival mascot contest at the 2nd Korea Representative Festival Expo held at BEXCO, Busan from the 3rd to the 5th.
Under the slogan "Korea united by festivals! Shopping for festivals," the event was organized to strengthen the competitiveness of festivals and promote the revitalization of the local economy.
This expo provided a space to promote and experience Seongju's representative festivals, presented festival presentations, and actively promoted seasonal festivals including the Seongju Life Culture Festival by featuring Chambyeol-i, who won last year's mascot grand prize.
In addition, the "2022 Seongju Life Culture Festival," which will be held for 10 days from August 5 to 14, was selected for the Gyeongbuk Metaverse Festival contest project, and will participate in metaverse-related programs to lead the metaverse festival.
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Lee Byung-hwan, mayor of Seongju-gun, said, "We will do our best to enable the Seongju tourism industry to leap forward by quickly responding to the changing festival paradigm and developing unique tourism resources and festival policies exclusive to Seongju."
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