Over 150,000 Visitors Flock to Hwaseong Songsan Grape Festival

Agricultural Product Sales Amount 1.96 Billion Won

Hwaseong City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 4th that approximately 155,000 people visited this year's 'Hwaseong Songsan Grape Festival,' held over two days on the 2nd and 3rd.

During the festival held at Gungpyeong Port in Seosin-myeon, Hwaseong, local agricultural product sales totaled 1.96 billion KRW.

On the 2nd, Jeong Myeong-geun, mayor of Hwaseo, delivered a congratulatory speech at the Hwaseong Songsan Grape Festival, which opened at Gungpyeong Port.
[Photo by Hwaseong City]

The festival featured various events such as grape stomping, grape fishing, and a grape tasting contest. The city explained that it was a participatory festival where local grape farmers and consumers engaged together, receiving great response.

At the grape tasting contest awards ceremony held during the event, the grand prizes were awarded to the farms of Noh Hyun-ho and Park Seon-suk (Campbell Early) and the farms of Yoo Mu-cheol and Kang Yeon-hwa (Shine Muscat), respectively.

Jung Myung-geun, mayor of Hwaseong, stated, “We will continue to contribute to increasing the income of grape farmers and will spare no effort in providing various support to enhance the competitiveness of agricultural specialties, including basic income policies for farmers and fishermen.”

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