Jeju bangeo Festival | Seogwipo
Celebration
The Jeju Dory Festival is an independent regional festival dominated by fishermen and local residents in Jeju. It was designated as a preliminary festival designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2008 and 2009, and received a warm response from domestic and foreign tourists. However, it was cancelled in 2010, but it was designated as a supported festival by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries in 2018, becoming a truly representative cultural festival of Jeju's oceans, and a national festival with a huge influx of tourists and economic effects.
In addition, in November, the peak season for dory, various marine cultural festivals with the theme of defense, the delicacy of Jeju's winter sea, are held to reproduce the local history and traditional culture, and to bring experience and happiness to residents, islanders and tourists who come to visit. The unique marine traditional culture and regional specialties of Jeju, the southernmost part of South Korea, are reproduced.