Gimje Horizon Festival

About the Festival

*The food content at the festival venue below is based on the previous year's (2025) festival. The content for the 2026 festival is currently being updated.* The Gimje Horizon Festival, the only honorary representative cultural tourism festival designated by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism that is held with the theme of traditional agricultural culture, revolves around Gimje Byeokgolje, Korea's oldest and largest irrigation facility. Various attractions, including the Presidential National Nongak Contest held on the horizon stage, various agricultural cultural experience programs such as making rice in a traditional stove, catching grasshoppers, and rice harvesting, as well as traditional events like the Byeokgolje Twin Dragon Play Legend and the Ip-seok Tug-of-War for a Bountiful Harvest, can be directly participated in on-site.

About the Festival

1. Main Programs - Presidential National Nongak Contest of the Horizon: The only presidential-level contest among national festival contests, where teams representing regional nongak from across the country participate to experience the essence of our traditional nongak. - Byeokgolje Twin Dragon Play Legend: A representative traditional cultural performance based on the twin dragon legend associated with Byeokgolje, the main stage of the Gimje Horizon Festival, performed with a situational performance involving residents of Buryang-myeon, Gimje-si. - Ip-seok Tug-of-War for a Bountiful Harvest: A traditional folk game wishing for a bountiful harvest on Jeongwol Daeboreum (the first full moon of the lunar new year), operated with the participation of residents of Gyo-wol-dong, Gimje-si, as a representative traditional cultural performance. 2. Experience Programs - Da-eji Art Zipline Experience: A unique leisure sports experience that crosses over the large-scale Da-eji Art (rice paddy experience field) created at Byeokgolje. - Making Rice in a Traditional Stove: An experience where families cook and eat rice directly in a small traditional stove with a cauldron. - Horizon Kite Flying: The largest kite-flying project in the country, a program to fly various kites simultaneously. 3. Supplementary Programs - LED Da-eji Art: Nightscape creation by installing lights fitting the festival's theme on the Da-eji Art, which expresses Ssarikongi in hanbok welcoming with the abundance and warmth of the horizon. - Ssarikongi Baler Art Exhibition: A baler art exhibition showcasing the festival's sentiment, displaying various artworks from Ssarikongi characters to popular characters. - Horizon Final Fantasy Show: A final media show combining laser, lighting, fireworks, and multimedia for a spectacular festival night and large-scale night attractions. 4. Others (Food, etc.) - Local Specialty Food Booths: Selling representative dishes from within the city selected through the 'Matbojaggo Competition,' a project to select Gimje's best restaurants to eradicate poor food quality at local festivals, as well as representative dishes from eup/myeon/dong. - Horizon Majung-geori (Welcoming Street): Operating snack stalls for young people to enjoy. - Agricultural and Special Products Direct Market: Selling raw agricultural, livestock, and fishery products, processed goods, and special products produced in Gimje.