"Burning Up"... The 'Real' Sunrise Event Returns After 4 Years at Homigot, the Easternmost Point of the Korean Peninsula

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"Oh, it's boiling up, the East Sea is boiling!"

Korea's representative sunrise festival, the "26th Homigot Korean Ethnic Sunrise Festival," will be held from December 31st this year to January 1st next year at Homigot Sunrise Plaza.

Hosted and organized by Pohang City and Pohang Cultural Foundation, and sponsored by DGB Daegu Bank and Nampo Hang Nonghyup, this event will present various programs under the theme "Dragon's Ascension, Pohang as the Central City of the East Sea Rising Together" along with the sunrise of the Gapjin year, the Year of the Blue Dragon.

The official event will begin at 6:45 AM on January 1st with the "New Year's Grand Drum Performance," followed by the "2023 Pohang Review Video Screening," "Gathering Wishes for 2024 Gapjin Year," and "New Year's Greetings and Four-Character Idiom Announcement and Performance."

A celebratory flight show by the Navy Aviation Command and the Marine Corps Aviation Unit is scheduled around the sunrise at 7:33 AM. From 8 AM, the "2024 New Year Celebration Concert," featuring pop opera and musicals, will take place.

In addition, various side events such as the "Homigot Market," which will warm the cold weather with experience booths, food booths, and rest areas, as well as New Year's rice cake soup sharing, wish writing, sculpture exhibitions, and photo booths will be prepared.

For safety, a comprehensive control room will be set up at Homigot Sunrise Plaza, where the main events take place, to serve as a disaster control tower, and drones and an on-site control tower will be operated to respond immediately in case of crowd accidents.

Pohang City will install container booths throughout the venue instead of large tents vulnerable to strong winds and cold waves, and deploy traffic officers at major intersections to ensure smooth traffic flow. Parking capacity will also be expanded by about 1,500 spaces to enhance safety management and reduce inconvenience for citizens.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok of Pohang said, "Since this year's Homigot Korean Ethnic Sunrise Festival is being held normally for the first time in four years, we plan to prepare new and diverse sunrise programs that will attract visitors' attention," adding, "We will focus on thorough preparations so that everyone can safely and joyfully welcome the New Year at Homigot, the easternmost point of the Korean Peninsula."

Sunrise at Homigot last year.

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