"Reflect on the meaning of salmon in Namdaecheon, Yangyang, and feel the importance of life and the importance of the environment."

The "Baby Salmon Sending Experience Festival," organized by the Yangyang Cultural Foundation with the Donghae Life Resources Center to awaken the value of salmon and the importance of life through ecological education and experience, will be held from the 8th to the 10th at the Namdaecheon Multipurpose Plaza in Yangyang, the River of Salmon.

This festival, held in Namdaecheon, Yangyang, Korea's largest salmon return river, is a representative festival in the region, and ecological education on salmon and various experience programs are provided as the pick-up water of the salmon festival held in autumn.

The young salmon discharge experience event, which recruits participants through the smart tourism platform "Goyangyang" app, will have an opportunity for participants to release young salmon into the river five times during the festival, with 100 people per episode.

In addition to experience programs such as salmon-related ecological education, decorating baby salmon discharge containers, and feeding baby salmon, there will also be a space where you can meet works created by artists participating as "Beach Market" and "Ttukbang Market" sellers. An official from the Cultural Foundation said, "The 5,000 won baby salmon discharge experience fee will be paid to participants again as 3,000 won discount coupons that can be used at the festival venue." "Yangyang Oil Market will be held on the 9th, the weekend of this festival, providing abundant attractions and experience opportunities."

Meanwhile, salmon are regressive fish species that are born in rivers and move to the sea and return to the river during the spawning season. About 100,000 young salmon released during this festival will grow in the Bering Sea in the North Pacific Ocean via Namdaecheon and the East Sea and then return to Namdaecheon, Yangyang, three to five years later.a