▲ The 24th Goseong Unification Pollack Festival in Gangwon Province A new leap with the theme of 'Good Luck Festival'

Goseong-gun announced that the Goseong Unification Pollack Festival, a representative festival, will be held at Geojin 11-ri Beach for three days from Friday, October 11.

The county explained, "The Goseong Unification Pollack Festival, which marks its 24th anniversary this year, will be held two weeks ahead of the schedule in consideration of the chilly weather in late October in the Yeongdong region under the new theme of the festival that gives luck with the energy of pollack – Good Luck Festival."

Goseong-gun said that the Goseong Unification Pollack Festival has been directly operated by the Goseong Unification Pollack Festival Committee and has been loved by many tourists for its rich programs such as pollock-related culture, play, and food.

Starting this year, new changes will be attempted in addition to the traditions. The Goseong Cultural Foundation's festival performance team is in charge of the festival and operates it in cooperation with the existing festival committee. The plan is to create a more professional and systematic festival management structure by stably operating the existing program and adding newness.

Under the concept of "Seven Luck Met in Goseong, Good Luck City," the foundation plans to renew programs such as △ catching live fish bare hands △ grilled pollack △ traditional games to express the universal desire of all citizens for happiness, health and well-being through pollack, and to create new programs and booths such as △ Pollack Goods Shop 'Bok Dream' △ Pollack Beach Bar △ Good Luck Concert △ Good Luck Playground △ Good Luck Tour. The venue itself will become a "place where luck and luck come in," and audience-participating experiences and performances will become a "welcome to blessings" program to provide visitors with beneficial experiences.

In addition, recruitment of booths for the festival will begin on September 2. For the recruitment field, △ Pollack Food Booth △ Pollack Experience Booth △ Pollack Regional Specialty Products Sales will be selected first to strengthen the identity of the Pollack Festival. Detailed information on recruiting booths can be found on the Goseong Cultural Foundation website.

Meanwhile, the county said, "In the process of preparing the festival's theme, 'Festival that gives good luck with the energy of pollack - Good Luck Festival', the festival's project cost was cut by 120 million compared to the previous year, and since May, the Goseong Cultural Foundation, Goseong-gun, and the festival committee have decided to use it as a priming water for the new festival by changing the theme and promotion strategy of the festival through six planning meetings." "Based on the belief of the ups and downs of pollack, Good-Luck, which means 'good luck', is set as the representative theme and emphasizes the cultural value of pollack."

Instead of emphasizing biological pollack that is no longer caught, it will be transformed into a festival that emphasizes cultural aspects such as "liquid membrane" and "bokbokchi" and gives the meaning of "pollack" as a representative national food industry and the representative pollack processing industry.

"This festival is a great opportunity to enjoy the autumn sea of Goseong, waiting for tourists with richer contents," said Ham Myung-joon, chairman of the Goseong Cultural Foundation. "As the festival's representative theme and schedule have been changed, we hope that many people will not miss the festival and that we will have a lucky autumn with the pollack of Goseong."