Korea's Largest Kimchi Sharing Event to Be Held at Garak Market on the 17th

10,000 Boxes of Kimchi to Be Delivered at the Garak Market Kimchi Sharing Citizens’ Festival

The largest kimchi-sharing event in Korea, the “Garak Market Kimchi Sharing Citizens’ Festival” (Garak Kimchi Festival), will take place at 10 a.m. on November 17 on the rooftop Sky Park on the third floor of Garak Mall at Garak Market in Seoul.

The Garak Kimchi Festival will be held on the 17th of this month at Garak Market in Seoul. The photo shows last year's event. Provided by Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation.

Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation (President Moon Youngpyo) announced on the 10th that this festival is a traditional food-sharing event where citizens, distributors, and volunteers come together to make kimchi and share it with neighbors in need.

Launched in 2008, the Garak Kimchi Festival marks its 18th year in 2025 and has been held every year without interruption. Distributors at Garak Market and the corporation jointly raise the budget, and citizens, children, and foreign volunteers participate in making kimchi, which is then delivered to 10,000 households in Seoul.

The corporation explained that this event has gone beyond simple sharing and has played a role in spreading the value of social contribution among companies and organizations. Even during the period when gatherings of more than five people were prohibited due to COVID-19 (2020-2022), the festival continued its donations by producing and distributing 10,000 boxes of finished kimchi through HACCP-certified companies.

The event is organized by the Hope Sharing Market, a nonprofit corporation established in 2010 to integrate Garak Market’s social contribution activities. It originated from the “Garak Market Hope Sharing Volunteer Group,” launched in 2008 to unify various social contribution projects that had been conducted by business sector since the market opened on June 19, 1985.

Hope Sharing Market carries out a variety of social contribution projects based on the expertise of Garak Market, the largest public wholesale market for agricultural and marine products in Korea. This year, a total of 1.5 billion won, raised by distributors and the corporation, was delivered to regions affected by major wildfires in Yeongnam, and the “Kids, Let’s Eat Fruit” project, which supplies seasonal fruit to local children’s centers throughout Seoul, has been expanded to double the previous year’s scale, now operating at a total value of 1.3 billion won.

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