Horizon Festival

Origin of the festival

• The local horizon of our country unique is held in the Gimje CITY member with the theme around the Byeokgolje Reservoir Site special stage in order to introduce Gimje in 1999 widely and publicize the local horizon rice,that is the indigenous product of the Gimje.
• As a central region of farming culture passed down 5,000 years with Byeokgolje Reservoir Site, the old reputation is restored
• Create an image for the region with the theme about the nation's only marvelous view of horizon the sky and the land meet
• As a regional specialized festival with a subject material of rice, it is basically connected to the increase of farm household income
• As an experience festival with natural, cultural and historical character of Gimje, Gimje Jipyongsun Festival is held by trying to be differentiated from other autonomous community

Main events / experience programs

※ The contents of experiences/events can be different every year.

Cultural performance

• Opening celebrating performance, Jipyongsun song festival, memory 7080 concert, Nongak contest, music concert, etc.

Recommended experience/event for youth and couple in their 10s and 20s

• Jipyongsun lamp: Experience to display it in space of cultural square by writing the wish paper
• Flying a wish LED balloon: Experience to write the wish paper and fly it with a LED balloon
• Byeokgolje wish Hanji lamp: Progress connected to the wish Hanji suspending and comment events
• Cosmos walkway: A proof picture in cosmos photo zone walking with a lover!
• Traditional Hanbok experience: Experience to wear traditional Hanbok and learn about our Hanbok
• Jipyongsun family farm festival: National agricultural science experience center connected program(teenager family 1 night 2 days camp, etc)
• Youth street: Busking performance, youth food truck and Jipyongsun flea market operation
• Making Jipyongsun Sweet Rice Puffs Korean Unification Flag: Issue making experience for peace on the Korean Peninsula with citizen of the world
• Challenge 2033! Global jegichagi: Traditional folk game jegichagi with foreign tourists
• Jipyongsun well-being rice experience yard: Rice craft experience with Gimje rice(mini cake, doughnut, etc)
• Jipyongsun selfie contest: Selfie contest with the subject of the 20th Jipyongsun festival

Recommended experience/event for family in their 30s and 40s

• Morakmorak! Cooking furnace rice: Experience to cook furnace rice in traditional way and feel old memory
• Family match making our happy thatched house: Experience to make mini thatched house with the subject of horizon
• Gold field memory travel(catching grasshopper) : Experience to feel warm emotion and fun living with nature through catching grasshopper
• Gimje placer gold story: A different experience to pan the gold in bucket after digging up the sand mixed with placer gold and putting it in mineral dressing plate(panning)
• Environment-friendly boat experience: Service of solar boat without carbon emission(each a sixteen seat boat and a eight seat boat)
• Jipyongsun youth farm: Sweet potato harvest experience with Jipyongsun young farmer Kang Bo-ram
• Jipyongsun farm trip: A different farm experience to feel in horizon(milk class, giving milk, giving hay, milking experience etc)
• Jipyongsun can train: Experience of a train operating 2.5km while connecting 4 cans, Byeogoeul, Yongdure Matture agricultural implement experience, Yongdure Matture, beastworked mill, treadmill experience and experience to learn the wisdom of ancestors

Recommended experience/event for group over the age of 50

• Byeokgolje legend Ssangryong game: A traditional folk game to praise Danya who sacrificed his life for a good harvest of Byeokgolje Reservoir Site and harmony of human
• Ipseok tag of war praying for a good harvest: A folk game with ideals of ancestors who prayed for a good harvest
• Byeokgolje Ssangryong torch parade: Parade through media facade & torch directing
• Jipyongsun rice/Makgeolli experience: Experience using "Makgeoli" that is a representative nongju of agricultural culture