100 Days to Gimje Jipyeongseon Festival, Resolution to Eradicate 'Overcharging'

Jeonbuk Gimje City (Mayor Jeong Seong-ju) announced on the 27th that it held a resolution meeting to eradicate overcharging fees along with the ‘25th Gimje Horizon Festival D-100 Days Commemoration Regional Specialty Food Contest’ held at the new main gate Hanok market of Byeokgolje.

A commemorative scene of the 25th Gimje Horizon Festival D-100 Day Special Local Food Contest held on the 27th at Byeokgolje Sin Jeongmun Hanok Market in Gimje-si, Jeollabuk-do.
[Photo by Gimje-si]

Recently, excessive overcharging fees and food prices at some local festivals have been reported daily through various media, emerging as a social issue.

Accordingly, the city is preparing a festival that will serve as a model for other festivals and enhance the satisfaction of visitors to the festival site on the occasion of the D-100 days until the opening of the Gimje Horizon Festival, the only honorary representative cultural tourism festival in the province.

The event was attended by Mayor Jeong Seong-ju of Gimje City, Kim Young-ja, Chairperson of the Gimje City Council, Lee Jae-hee, Director of the Gimje Horizon Festival Organizing Committee, the festival’s organizing body, and about 80 members from 19 social organizations of towns and townships participating in the contest, who together read the declaration and held the resolution meeting.

In addition, the city plans to promote the grand prize-winning menu from this regional specialty food contest as the representative dish of the ‘25th Gimje Horizon Festival’ to be held from October 5 to 9. The plan aims to allow visitors to the festival to feel the abundant and generous hospitality of Gimje City.

Mayor Jeong said, “I ask for the cooperation of all citizens so that the Gimje Horizon Festival without overcharging fees can serve as a model for other regional festivals,” and added, “We will do our best to prepare so that visitors to the festival can feel the warm affection of Gimje City, where golden waves ripple.”

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