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Pohang International Fire & Light Festival, the Feast of Lighting RainbowAspect of the biggest size of festival with 1 million and 870 thousands of crowd, a record turnout
  • 취재: 여의봉, 남지영 / 번역 : 이경목
  • 승인 2016.08.10 18:00
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[IIJ= Gyeongsangbuk-do Reporter Euibong Yeo, Jiyeong Nam] the 13th of Pohang International Fire & Light Festival, which was held on July 28th, completed in success with 1 million and 870 thousands of people.

▲Pohang International Fire & Light Festival ⓒIIJ


According to Pohang Festival Committee and Pohang-si, the festival had a great success as 80 thousands of people thronged to Yeongildae Beach where International Fire & Light Show, the main event was held, and also 30 thousands of people thronged to here on consecutive days.
In this year’s festival, Italy, Taiwan, Republic of Korea and other countries from each continent competed with each other by fireworks. 200s people, Chiefs of local governments, foreign envoys in Korea, cultural performance groups and so on, from 13 cities of 6 countries including our sister cities participated in.
Especially, over 50 percent of the total number of visitors, at International Fire & Light Festival on 30th, were from the areas nearby Pohang such as Daegu as well as the other regions like Seoul, Gyeonggi areas. The number of the tourists towards Gyeongsangnam-do area including Ulsan increased because of the newly opened Pohang-Ulsan Expressway on last June 30th. Due to this situation, most of the accommodation facilities in downtown area including Yeongildae Beach were full of the guests therefore there were lacks of rooms. It was a phenomenon that showed Pohang International Fire & Light Festival, which is 13th, is the commonly enjoyable festival as cultural tourism based one.
Gyuyeol Jang, the Chief of Pohang Festival Committee, said Pohang International Fire & Light Festival was awarded as “Domestic festival that people want to come again” and this festival was promoted through the press, therefore many tourists from the whole country came, and he said “After the festival, I will make my best effort to prepare the festival for the tourist to come Pohang again on the focus of improving Pohang’s characteristics, not clinging to the number of tourists.”
Gangduk Lee, the Mayor of Pohang, said Pohang International Fire & Light Festival is meaningful for the inducement of foreign ferry route and cruise through East Sea Rim Forum, which opened at the same period of the festival, and securing local economic potential like expansion of supplies movement at Yeongil Bay Harbor, and the festival is significant for Korea, China, Russia, and Japan to revitalize the cultural exchange along each other.

취재: 여의봉, 남지영 / 번역 : 이경목  yeu3030@naver.com

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