'Namsadang Baudeogi' Establishes Itself as a Representative 'Cultural Tourism Festival' of Korea

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Selected for 2024~2025 Festival

The 'Anseong Matchum Namsadang Baudeogi Festival,' a representative local festival in Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do, has been included among the 25 cultural tourism festivals selected by the government.

Anseong-si announced on the 21st that it has been reselected for the '2024-2025 Cultural Tourism Festival' designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, following its selection from 2020 to 2023.

A view of the Anseong Matchum Namsadang Baudeogi Festival held this year.
[Photo by Anseong City]

The Cultural Tourism Festival is selected through an expert on-site and written evaluation, consumer awareness and satisfaction surveys, and local resident support and response surveys conducted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on over 1,100 local festivals held nationwide in 2023, followed by a designation review committee.

The city explained that despite the government strengthening the evaluation criteria to develop cultural tourism festivals into global festivals and reducing the number of selected projects from 33 to 25 starting this year, the Namsadang Baudeogi Festival was reselected.

Held since 2001, this festival is based on 'Namsadangnori,' which is designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property and a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.

With this selection as a Cultural Tourism Festival, the event will receive national funding, promotion and marketing support, and improvements in accommodation readiness from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Tourism Organization for two years.

A city official said, "Taking this selection as an opportunity, we will nurture the Namsadang Baudeogi Festival into a global festival representing the Republic of Korea."

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