▲ The '2024 Inje Autumn Flower Festival' is the most popular...190,000 visitors in 17 days

The Inje County Cultural Foundation said that the Inje Autumn Flower Festival, which opened on September 28, has exceeded 190,000 cumulative visitors in the 17 days since its opening, and is on the verge of exceeding the target of 200,000 visitors.

The festival, which will be held until the 20th of this month at Yongdae Tourist Site in Buk-myeon, Inje-gun under the theme of "Let's walk only on flower paths in Inje," has created 30 kinds of wild flowers, including chrysanthemums, dapsari, and Gujecho, and provides visitors with colorful and beautiful flowers.

According to the tally, 191,644 people visited until October 14, up 23% from 155,000 visitors during the same period (17 days) since the opening of the festival compared to last year. In particular, the average number of visitors on weekdays was 6,707 this year, nearly 1.8 times higher than the previous year (3,883), indicating a significant increase in visitors to the festival site on weekdays.

The foundation said, "This year's Inje Autumn Flower Festival is recording an all-time box office hit," and explained, "The cumulative sales of local agricultural products and food, including Hwangtae and chrysanthemums, have also exceeded 600 million won, contributing significantly to revitalizing the local economy."

This year's festival will feature 12 food trucks instead of restaurants in the market, allowing visitors to enjoy a variety of foods easily, and providing information such as restaurants in the city through an application developed by the Inje County Cultural Foundation, allowing tourists to easily access Inje County tourism information.

An official said, "This soon leads to an increase in the number of visitors using restaurants and lodging facilities in the Inje area as well as restaurants near the festival site, which directly helps the local economy," adding, "For the convenience of visitors, the Inje County Cultural Foundation plans to continue maintaining festival halls and convenience facilities and strengthen hygiene inspections and monitoring of well-being markets and food trucks to create a pleasant festival atmosphere and minimize inconvenience."

Jeon Man-ho, executive director of the Inje County Cultural Foundation, said, "We will do our best to facilitate the Inje Autumn Flower Festival, which many visitors visited, and to satisfy visitors and local residents."

On the other hand, Inje-gun added that the pine forest, which was renovated along with the festival, is popular with family visitors by running various experience programs such as trimming and zipline, and the forest cafe on the one side of the pine forest is receiving favorable responses from visitors because you can feel the atmosphere of the dense forest.