Mokpo Hanggu Festival Achieves Victory by Winning Korea Festival Content Award

2023 Mokpo Hanggu Festival Awarded Grand Prize in Festival Arts Category

Mokpo City in Jeollanam-do announced that the ‘2023 Mokpo Port Festival’ won the ‘Grand Prize in the Festival Arts Category’ at the 12th Korea Festival Contents Awards held on the 22nd at the Baekbeom Kim Koo Memorial Hall in Seoul.

The Korea Festival Contents Association, which selects the Korea Festival Contents Awards, has been awarding six categories annually since 2012 to regional festivals that have significantly contributed to the local festival content industry.

It is also an award aimed at fostering pride in the festival content industry and encouraging the global development of Korea’s regional festivals.

(On the right) Park Hong-ryul, Mayor of Mokpo City, is receiving the Korea Festival Content Award and taking a commemorative photo with Cha Jeong-hyun, President of the Korea Festival Content Association. [Photo by Mokpo City]

The 2024 Korea Festival Contents Awards were judged by 25 experts in festival-related fields, including professors, directors, journalists, and industry representatives.

Among festivals held last year, those that passed the first and second rounds of judging were rigorously selected through a comprehensive evaluation of visitor awareness and satisfaction, local community support, content uniqueness, safety management systems, and contributions to the local community.

The Mokpo Port Festival is the only domestic festival themed around the traditional ‘Pasi’ and offers tourists unique experiences and various hands-on opportunities based on regional distinctiveness.

Last year, it was selected as a ‘2024-2025 Cultural Tourism Festival’ designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, as well as the ‘2024 Jeollanam-do Representative Festival.’ This year, it is scheduled to be held for three days from September 27 to 29, aiming to advance into a more developed global festival than last year.

Mayor Park Hong-ryul said, “Last year’s Mokpo Port Festival was a successful event with unprecedented enthusiasm from participating residents,” adding, “We will not be complacent with our current position and will do our best to continuously discover differentiated content so that the 18th Mokpo Port Festival this year can grow beyond a representative regional festival of Korea to become a world-class festival.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.