Incheon Ganghwa Goryeosan Azalea Festival Canceled... "Focusing on Wildfire Prevention Activities"

Incheon Ganghwa-gun announced on the 28th that it will cancel the 'Goryeosan Azalea Flower Viewing' event scheduled for next month.

Ganghwa-gun decided to cancel the event and mobilize all administrative resources for wildfire surveillance activities, considering the wildfire disaster crisis situation nationwide, including Gyeongbuk. Earlier, the Korea Forest Service issued a 'Severe' level national wildfire disaster crisis alert for all regions across the country on the 25th.

Accordingly, Ganghwa-gun will close and restrict access to all mountain trails not only on Goryeosan but also on Manisan, Jingangsan, and Haemyeongsan for the time being. Additionally, four wildfire surveillance drones will be deployed to detect heat in real time, and firefighting helicopters will patrol the entire Ganghwa-gun area four times a week.

Ganghwa Goryeo Mountain Azalea Festival. Yonhap News

The Goryeosan Azalea Flower Viewing event is a representative spring festival in the region, attracting more than 130,000 visitors annually. This year, it was scheduled to be held for nine days from April 5 to 13 around Goryeosan.

Park Yong-chul, the county governor, said, "Ganghwa-gun has experienced large wildfires on Jingangsan in 2019 and Manisan in 2023, so awareness of wildfires is higher here than anywhere else. We will keep all possibilities open and proactively respond to wildfires to protect the lives and property of citizens."

Meanwhile, the forest area in Ganghwa-gun accounts for 43% of its total area and represents 44% of the entire forest area of Incheon City.

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