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Nearly 2 million visitors attend world famous ice fishing festival

TB (summary) February 2, 2025 18:59

The 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Fishing Festival in South Korea concluded with a record 1.86 million visitors.

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Visitors attend the 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Fishing Festival

The world-famous Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Fishing Festival 2025, one of Korea's most popular winter events, closed with a record 1.86 million visitors, breaking the 1.84 million mark set in 2019.

Yonhap news agency quoted the organizers' announcement on February 2 saying that the festival opened on January 11 in Hwacheon, a remote mountain town in Gangwon Province, South Korea.

Du khách tham dự Lễ hội băng Hwacheon Sancheoneo 2025, một trong những sự kiện mùa đông nổi tiếng nhất Hàn Quốc, tại Hwacheon, tỉnh Gangwon. (Nguồn: koreatimes)
Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Fishing Festival, one of the most famous winter events in Korea

The unique festival taking place on a frozen river not only attracted a large number of locals but also welcomed 122,000 international visitors, a sharp increase compared to last year's figure of 85,000.

Launched in 2003, the festival was selected as a national event in 2010 by the Korean Ministry of Culture and has grown into one of the world's four major winter festivals.

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Nearly 2 million visitors attend world famous ice fishing festival