'Icheon Rice Culture Festival' Selected as One of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's 'Top 100 Regional Cultural Attractions'

Selected as a Lifestyle and Historical Festival

The 'Icheon Rice Culture Festival,' a representative festival of Icheon City in Gyeonggi Province, has been selected as one of the 'Top 100 Regional Cultural Attractions (Korea Local 100)' by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The 'Top 100 Regional Cultural Attractions' is a project initiated last year by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to introduce attractive local cultural resources and widely promote their value by selecting and publicizing regional cultural assets.

At the Icheon Rice Culture Festival held last year, Kim Kyung-hee, Mayor of Icheon, and others participated in a 600-meter-long garaetteok sharing event.
[Photo by Icheon City]

The city explained that the Icheon Rice Culture Festival was listed as one of the 14 festivals nationwide in the 'Lifestyle and History Festival' category. Previously, the Icheon Rice Culture Festival was also selected as an Excellent Festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and as a Gyeonggi Tourism Festival.

Started in 1999, the Icheon Rice Culture Festival is an event designed to revive fading rural memories and preserve the unique agricultural cultural heritage using the newly harvested rice of that year as its theme.

At the 22nd festival held last year, the city evaluated that accessibility was improved by shortening the shuttle bus intervals to 15 minutes, and the number of visitors from outside the region exceeded half of the total visitors, thereby expanding its base.

Meanwhile, this year’s Icheon Rice Culture Festival is scheduled to be held for five days from October 16 to 20 at 'Icheon Agricultural Theme Park,' located at 48 Gongwon-ro, Moga-myeon, Icheon City.

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