Events/outdoor activity

Welcome to Sancheong!Sancheong, the hometown of Mt. Jiri and the clean town of traditional Asian medicine.

Events

  • Gisan Gukak Festival
    • Period : During Sancheong Oriental Medicinal Herbs Festival in every year
    • Place : Sancheong Art Center, Sancheong Indoor Gymnasium, Specially prepared stage of Festival Square at the entrance of Sancheong IC

    This event is a Korean traditional music festival for commemorating and honoring of the late Gisan Park Heon-bong, who was a forerunner of Gukak, and his accomplishments. Being held in Sancheong, which is his birthplace, this festival aims to reilluminate his great accomplishments and develop cultures and arts in Sancheong. On the purposes of expanding the foundation for Korean traditional musicians, so as to scout for talented rookie musicians and enhance the morale for Korean traditional music, National Students Gukak Contest is also being held.

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  • Nammyeong Seonbimunhwa Festival
    • Period : Every October
    • Place : Sicheon-myeon, Korea Seonbimunhwa Institute, Sancheonjae

    As a local folklore festival designated by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, this festival is held in October every year in order to honor the life and spirit of Nammyeong Jo Sik , who was a leading figure in practical Confucianism in the Joseon Dynasty. The epic theatre performance, expedition ceremony for righteous army, an academic conference, and Sunbimunhwa experience are included in the festival.

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  • Namsa Yedamchon Traditional Cultural Art Festival
    • Period : Around the middle of September in every year (for two days)
    • Place : 10, Jirisan-daero 2897beon-gil, Danseong-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea
    • Activity Programs : Folk play in antique house and experience of traditional wedding ceremony Exhibition and Drink Sampling : Wedding food prepared by head family house, oriental flower arrangement based on the beautiful end of the eaves, and trying out tea made in Sancheong
    • Special Performance : Performances by local arts troupe and traditional culture performances which are performed by nation -wide famous teams
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  • Grasshopper Catching Festival
    • Period : Every October
    • Place : Chahwang-myeon, Sancheong-gun (the whole area)

    This is a government-supportive event arranged by Sancheong-gun National Agricultural Cooperate Federation and sponsored by Sancheong-gun. It informs the urban consumers of Maettugi (grasshopper) rice cultivated in Chahwang-myeon, Sancheong-gun organically in fertile, unpolluted soil with fresh air, high diurnal range, and clean water from Jirisan Mountain.

    There is no specific application procedure and fee. The participants who catch the most grasshoppers among other participants in one hour will be awarded with 20kg of Maettugi rice along with the excellence award and participation award. Generous gifts will also be given away through a singing contest and drawing of lots.

    Pungmul bands will perform around the event spot to perk up the fun and excitement, and an exhibition market for agro-specialty products, a traditional market, a food market, and a one-day café will be held.

    Grasshoppers are insects that live in unpolluted and clean environment, and symbolize a clean and unpolluted Sancheong-gun. Promoting the significance and necessity of sustainable agriculture, Sancheong-gun holds this event to secure the market for rice through the direct transaction with urban consumers and to increase farm earnings.

    This event will be a good opportunity for participants to see grasshoppers hopping on the ears of rice in a golden rice field, while taking in clean air, as if they have returned to their childhood, resulting in their trusting the Maettugi rice which is cultivated in an organic farming without chemical pesticides or insecticides.

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  • Sancheong Oriental Medicinal Herbs Festival
    • Period : September to October
    • Place : Sancheong IC
    • The entrance of event square and the whole area of Donguibogam Village

    Well-known for Jirisan Mountain and Donguibogam, Sancheong is a region which turned out excellent doctors from Ui Seong Heo Jun, who was the author of Donguibogam and the best doctor in his contemporary era, to Chosam and Chogaek, brothers who were renowned even in China in late Joseon Dynasty. Sancheong is an original place of medicinal herbs, growing in the mountain range of Jirisan Mountain, whose superiority is widely well-known and whose effects are superb. This festival is held in every October to widely inform people of Sancheong‘s position as the cradle of traditional medicine by inheriting and developing the tradition of superior medical spiritualism for self-sacrifice and the people on the basis of historical and natural foundation.

    As an oriental medicine-related festival and excellent festival designated by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Sancheong Oriental Medicinal Herb Festival allows you to experience the outstanding effects of oriental medicine and excellent medicinal herbs growing from Jirisan Mountain and try out oriental medicine check-up and food, which contains oriental medicinal ingredients, for free, providing activities with plenty to eat, purchase, and see.

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    Sancheong Oriental Medicinal Herbs Festival image
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  • Jirisan Mountain Sancheong Dried Persimmon Festival
    • Period : Every January
    • Place : 6, Songhajungtae-gil, Sicheon-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Korea / The whole area of Sancheong Dried Persimmon Distribution Center

    As a festival for promoting the quality dried persimmon produced in Sancheong, all kinds of performances and food and beverage tastings are held in the festival. You can purchase the quality dried persimmon in Deoksan auction house. Sancheong dried persimmon is naturally freeze-dried with frosty air current in Jirisan Mountain and is high in sugar content as being dried with temperate sunlight, and has been gaining popularity since being the first in the dried persimmon category in Korea to be recorded (as No. 3 of Korea Forest Service) in the Geographical Indication System.

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  • Jirisan Mountain Peace Festival
    • Period : Every October
    • Place : The whole area of Sancheong Public Stadium

    In November, 1969, the Peace Festival was started to gather citizens together and yearn for peace by breaking through Korean tragic contemporary history. Its fundamental goal is to awaken the people‘s loyal spirit in the tragic site where rebels from the Yoesu-Suncheon Rebellion entered Jirisan Mountain. The ritual for the mountain spirit, which has long served religious rites, is simultaneously held. Though this ritual was served in Cheonwangbong Peaks‘ Seongmosa Shrine at first, due to the irregular weather and the difficulty of climbing, people assigned the Jeyeongso to Sinseonneodeul, Sunduryu Valley, Jungbong Peak, build up an altar for the ritual for the mountain spirit, and then served ritual services in a Confucian way.

    The primary purpose of the ritual is to wish the year of good harvest with proper wind and rain, as well as to long for national peace. During this period, citizens purify their body and mind, preventing the badness from entering ahead by drawing the golden strip. The Peace Festival, which is held for two days, has been extended as multipurpose art festival by holding both the events for Citizen‘s Day and Field Day together. First held to honor the people‘s wish for national peace and to cure their sorrow engendered since the Korean War, it is held in every autumn with a citizens‘ athletics meeting.

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  • Hwangmaesan Mountain Royal Azalea Festival
    • Period : Every April to May
    • Place : San 1, Beoppyeong-ri, Chahwang-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do

    Hwangmaesan Mountain Royal Azalea Festival is held at the beginning of May every year with other events including climbing tournament, a singing contest, natural purification movement in order to inform the nation of the excellence of the royal azalea, which presents red scarlet colored flowers of vast high plateau, and to wish the well-being for citizens of Chahwang-myeon and a good harvest. There is a well-known legend in the relation to Buddhist Monk Muhak and Hwangmaesan Mountain. While training himself in Hwangmaesan Mountain, Muhak saw his mother become scared of waving silver grasses and snakes, and bleed from her foot due to the fact that thorns on earth had scratched her feet.

    Therefore, he prayed to a god of Hwangmaesan Mountain for 100 days and after his prayers snakes were allowed not to live in the mountain and thorns on earth did not take root in there. Since then, Hwangmaesan Mountain is said to symbolize the filial duty to parenthood. There are anecdotes about filial duty in the region and climbers can enjoy climbing the mountain because there are no snakes and thorns on the ground. During the festival period, Chahwang-myeon Farmers Association, as the festival host, allows you enjoy food such as heukdwaeji suyuk (Boiled Black Pork Slices), dwaeji-gukbap (Pork and Rice Soup), banjeonju, and local specialty products.

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    Hwangmaesan Mountain Royal Azalea Festival image
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