'Jeonnam Garden Festival' Held for One Month at Wando Beach

Fantastic Collaboration Between the Sea and Gardens... Over 50 Gardens Created

Joint Opening Ceremony with Jangbogo Seafood Festival on the 4th

The ‘2023 Jeollanam-do Garden Festival’ was held in Wando-gun, Jeollanam-do.

The ‘2023 Jeollanam-do Garden Festival,’ held for a month from the 1st to the 31st at Wando-gun Beach Park, is highly anticipated as it is the first domestic festival to be held on a beach site.

According to the county on the 2nd, from the planning stage of the festival, the focus was on the collaboration between the spring sea and gardens, reflecting sea-related themes in the gardens, and installing artificial turf throughout the event site, creating unique gardens distinctive to Wando.

The 2023 Jeollanam-do Garden Festival will be held for one month at Wando Beach.
[Photo by Wando-gun]

There are about 50 gardens: one representative garden is the ‘Garden Restaurant’ where visitors can enjoy Wando’s food in a subtropical forest garden; four artist gardens are ‘View Gardens’ overlooking the sea; 30 participant gardens are ‘Tube Gardens’ inspired by lifebuoys at the beach; and 12 island seat gardens are ‘Boat Gardens’ shaped like boats, all featuring Wando’s unique characteristics.

Especially since the festival is held in May, the month of family, various experiences and side events are held during the main event period so that the whole family can enjoy it.

Experience events are richly prepared, including making mini gardens such as moss gardens, succulent gardens, and topiary gardens, making flowerpot cakes, glow-in-the-dark slime gardens, luminous body painting, and a baby animal experience farm.

The baby animal experience farm was originally part of the Jangbogo Seafood Festival program, but through cooperation between the tourism department and the forest recreation department, which are related to the festival, it was decided that it would be better emotionally for children to experience animals along with the garden, so it was placed at the Garden Festival booth.

Side events include daily busking performances at the outdoor music hall in Beach Park, and on the 5th, ‘Chef Oh Se-deuk’s Healing Dinner,’ hosted by Wando-gun’s promotional ambassador, will be held at the Garden Restaurant.

On the 6th, to provide joyful memories for children, Pinkfong and Ttunteun Teacher’s dance party performances will be held twice for the first time in Jeollanam-do.

Additionally, at the entrance of the Garden Festival site, various photo zones are set up, including a large steel flower-decorated Wando Beach, a wooden sailing ship-shaped carnival guard, a lighthouse, and Mama Kkaturi, providing spaces for photography. Landscape lighting is also installed so visitors can enjoy the gardens into the night.

The opening ceremony of the Garden Festival will be held jointly with the Jangbogo Seafood Festival on the 4th.

Wando = Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Kyung-pil ckp6737@asiae.co.kr

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