Gossam Nori Festival

About the Festival

This festival aims to rediscover the value of [Gossam Nori], a representative folk game of agricultural culture, and to create a venue for communication, harmony, and cooperation based on Gossam Nori's unique masculine fighting spirit and enterprising vigor. It is a representative performing arts festival that, along with Seollal, features various folk game reenactments, the Daedong Dan Shimjul Nori (large-scale rope pulling game) where everyone participates, the Otdol Village Goblin Fire Spin (Dokkebi Bul Dolgi), and other traditional folk games on Jeongwol Daeboreum, a traditional holiday. This festival contributes to the revitalization of performing arts, the inheritance and development of traditional folk games, and the promotion of local culture, centered around Gossam Nori, a National Intangible Cultural Heritage representing our region.

About the Festival

Main Programs: Performance of Gossam Nori (National Intangible Cultural Heritage), Daljip Taewugi (burning of moon house), Fireworks, etc. Sub Programs: Celebration performances - Bukcheong Saja Nori (lion dance), Jultagi (tightrope walking), Namsadang Nori (itinerant troupe performance), performances by intangible heritage practitioners, creative madanggeuk (outdoor play) of Gossam Nori, etc. Consumer Participation Programs: Family Traditional Game Competition, Relay Saekkikkogi (straw rope making relay), Traditional Game Experience and Gift Receiving, Roasted Chestnuts and Burum (nuts eaten on Jeongwol Daeboreum), Kite Making and Flying. Other Contents: Meeting with authors and publishers of Korean culture picture books such as 'Tall Acorn' and 'Polar Bear', 119 Fire Safety Education Booth, Otdol Village Kit Experience, Bokssam Experience, Gosat Gossam Nori, Godongcha (traditional cart ride), etc.

Program Information

Main Programs: Performance of Gossam Nori (National Intangible Cultural Heritage), Daljip Taewugi (burning of moon house), Fireworks, etc. Sub Programs: Celebration performances - Bukcheong Saja Nori (lion dance), Jultagi (tightrope walking), Namsadang Nori (itinerant troupe performance), performances by intangible heritage practitioners, creative madanggeuk (outdoor play) of Gossam Nori, etc. Consumer Participation Programs: Family Traditional Game Competition, Relay Saekkikkogi (straw rope making relay), Traditional Game Experience and Gift Receiving, Roasted Chestnuts and Burum (nuts eaten on Jeongwol Daeboreum), Kite Making and Flying. Other Contents: Meeting with authors and publishers of Korean culture picture books such as 'Tall Acorn' and 'Polar Bear', 119 Fire Safety Education Booth, Otdol Village Kit Experience, Bokssam Experience, Gosat Gossam Nori, Godongcha (traditional cart ride), etc.