LetsRun Park Busan-Gyeongnam, Daeseongdong Ancient Tombs World Heritage Registration Commemorative Experience Festival

Korea Racing Authority’s LetsRun Park Busan-Gyeongnam, in collaboration with Gimhae City, will hold a Gaya Culture Experience Festival on November 5th at LetsRun Park Plaza to commemorate the inscription of the Daeseongdong Tumuli Cluster as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site.

Earlier, on October 17th, the World Heritage Committee held a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and decided to inscribe the Gaya Tumuli Cluster, including the Daeseongdong Tumuli Cluster, on the World Heritage List.

This event was planned to promote Gimhae’s cultural heritage both domestically and internationally and to raise historical awareness of Gaya culture. At the event, visitors can enjoy and learn about the flourishing iron culture of the ancient Gaya period in one place. As the nickname “Kingdom of Iron” suggests, Gaya was an ancient iron production complex that developed along the Nakdong River.

To help understand Gaya’s iron culture, there will be demonstrations and hands-on experiences of smelting processes such as fire lighting, bellows operation, and refining at the Gaya Iron Workshop. Additionally, a traditional Buncheong pottery experience will be offered, where participants can create pottery using clay and a potter’s wheel.

The iron workshop experience is currently in progress.

There will also be tasting events featuring local specialties such as Gimhae Jangguncha tea and Jinyeong Dan-gam persimmons, Gaya folk painting coloring experiences, a Gaya Theme Park promotional booth, and promotional experience booths for local companies.

The ‘Maljukgeori Market’ will be held to support distribution channels for local young entrepreneurs. Customers visiting the market will find a marketplace where they can purchase products filled with unique ideas, different from mass-produced goods.

Play zones featuring air bounces, mini trains, and mini Vikings, as well as various experience events such as fish catching and dalgona candy making, will also be available.

In addition, the ‘LetsRun Tour,’ where visitors can travel with a guide through the Masa area, home to horse racing industry-related jobs, and the 90-meter-long four-season sledding hill ‘Sled Hill’ will welcome families on outings.

A Korea Racing Authority official said, “The area near LetsRun Park Busan-Gyeongnam holds deeper historical significance as it is the first journey route of Heo Hwang-ok, the wife of King Suro, as recorded in the Samguk Yusa, leaving many legends and relics.”

He added, “We plan to provide enjoyment to family outing customers through Korea Racing Authority’s horse culture and the diverse Gaya culture that flourished with iron culture.”

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