Gochang-gun 'Hajeon Clam Five Senses Experience Festival' Successfully Concluded

Gochang-gun, Jeonbuk announced on the 8th that the ‘2023 Hajun Clam Five Senses Experience Festival (Gochang Clam Festival)’ held from the 5th to the 7th in Hajun Village, Simwon-myeon, was successfully concluded.

Gochang Hajun Clam Festival
[Photo by Gochang-gun]

According to the festival committee, despite the bad weather, a total of about 21,000 visitors came to the festival site over the three days, attracting a large number of people.

During the festival, high-quality Hajun clams produced in the Hajun mudflat, the center of the Gochang mudflat registered as a World Natural Heritage site, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, and Ramsar Wetland, were sold.

Six tons of clams prepared were sold out early with a 30% discount compared to market prices, receiving great response.

Also, the food corner operated jointly by the Hajun Youth Association and the Women's Association offered clam specialty dishes such as clam pancakes, sashimi salad, bibimbap, kalguksu (knife-cut noodles), and ramen, earning favorable reviews.

In addition, excellent seafood from Gochang such as clams, Pungcheon eel, and shrimp were promoted and sold, generating significant income.

Especially on Children’s Day, in addition to the existing mudflat experience, free clam distribution and tasting, and Pungcheon eel catching, a new Clam Kids Zone was established and operated.

Visitors, including children and families, enjoyed a variety of new and more diverse experience booths and programs for free, such as water gun shooting, making shell hairpins, decorating shell cookies, making black-faced spoonbills, and shaded playgrounds, which were more colorful than last year and very popular.

Kwon Young-joo, head of the Hajun Fishing Village Association, said, “We will continue to make various efforts so that more people can visit the festival and make it a representative festival of Gochang.”

Gochang = Kim Jae-gil, Honam Reporting Headquarters, Asia Economy baekok@asiae.co.kr

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