Boseong-gun Hosts Beolgyo Kkomak Festival

Published 27 Sep.2023 14:30(KST)

The Treasure of World Natural Heritage, Beolgyo Clean Mudflat

Making Bibimbap, Free Tasting, and Ancestral Rite Ceremony

Boseong-gun, Jeollanam-do announced that it will hold the "19th Beolgyo Cockle Festival" from October 27 to 29 in the Cheonbyeon area of Beolgyo-eup.

Celebrating its 19th year, the Beolgyo Cockle Festival is a resident participation festival enjoyed by families, offering a variety of performances, experiential events, a cockle singing contest, invited singer performances, and many other attractions and activities.

[Photo by Boseong-gun]

On the first day of the festival, the 27th, events include the Beolgyo street parade, making 2,000 servings of cockle bibimbap, free cockle tasting, a memorial rite, and the 22nd Beolgyo-eup Residents' Day ceremony.

On the second day, the 28th, the schedule features the 15th anniversary event of the Taebaek Mountain Range Literature Museum, "Find the Golden Cockle," a performance by the Chaedongseon Indoor Choir, and a wheeled plank boat race.

The final day, the 29th, concludes with a literary tour of the main stage of the novel Taebaek Mountain Range with author Jo Jung-rae, a youth contest, and a community gathering.

A representative from the Boseong-gun Culture and Tourism Department said, "We hope that people will create beautiful memories with their loved ones at this representative autumn festival prepared together with local residents, and that the charm and taste of Boseong will be widely known through the Beolgyo Cockle Festival."

Meanwhile, Beolgyo-eup is the home of cockles, producing more than 70% of the nation's cockles in the Boseong Beolgyo mudflat, which is registered as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site.

The Beolgyo mudflat has a unique natural environment with dense clay mud without sand or loess mixed in, unlike other regions. Beolgyo cockles are designated as the first seafood geographical indication and are known for their chewy texture and excellent taste, produced in the deep and dense mudflats of Yeojaman.