Ottogi Sponsors 'Hwacheon Tomato Festival'... Event Resumes After 3 Years

Participants are enjoying experiential events at the Hwacheon Tomato Festival held in 2019. Photo by Ottogi

[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] Ottogi announced on the 25th that it will sponsor the ‘2022 Hwacheon Tomato Festival’ held in Hwacheon-gun, Gangwon-do.

The Hwacheon Tomato Festival is a representative summer local agricultural product festival in Korea, planned to promote the region based on Hwacheon tomatoes, a specialty of Hwacheon-gun. It was suspended for two years due to COVID-19 but resumed this year, marking its 18th edition.

This year’s festival will take place for three days from the 5th to the 7th of next month around the Munhwa Village in Sachang-ri, Sanae-myeon, Hwacheon-gun, and the Sanae Sports Park area. Various experience, exhibition, and performance programs themed around tomatoes, as well as sales of local agricultural products, will be held.

Ottogi, which has been sponsoring the Hwacheon Tomato Festival since 2004, will prepare various exhibitions and events. On the 6th and 7th of next month, the ‘Tomato World Zone’ will host the program ‘A Thousand-Person Table with Ottogi,’ where 1,000 servings of cold pasta will be made and shared with participants. The ‘Market & Exhibition Zone’ will operate an Ottogi promotional booth throughout the festival period. Along with introducing representative products such as ‘Ottogi Tomato Ketchup,’ various product tastings and samplings are planned.

An Ottogi official said, “Ottogi continuously sponsors the Hwacheon Tomato Festival, a representative summer festival in Korea, pursuing coexistence and harmony with the local community. As the festival resumes after three years, it will greatly contribute to expanding domestic tomato demand and revitalizing the local economy.”

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