A kimchi culture festival, where families enjoy making kimchi together with healthy and safe ingredients produced in Jeonju, took place.

Jeonju City and the Jeonju Food Integrated Support Center held the 7th Jeonju Kimchi Culture Festival for 471 families in Jeonju from the 21st to the 23rd at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium Square.

Carrying the slogan 'Blending Taste and Style, 2025 Jeonju Kimchi Culture Festival,' this event was organized to promote the kimchi culture of Jeonju, known for its taste and style, and to introduce safe agricultural products produced in the region. Participating families were provided with kimchi made from locally produced and certified safe agricultural products, along with seasoning ingredients.

To participate in the kimchi culture festival, the Jeonju Food Integrated Support Center received applications from families from the 23rd of last month to the 15th of this month. As a result, 198 families applied for on-site pick-up, and 273 families applied for on-site experience participation.

Furthermore, at this year's kimchi culture festival, booths were set up for the exhibition, promotion, and experience of Jeolla Province kimchi, and food stalls were operated where Jeonju food processing product distributors promoted and sold various foods such as makgeolli (rice wine) and tofu on-site.

In addition to these activities, additional events were organized for festival attendees, including a kimchi camping cooking contest, rice threshing and grinding, autumn rural experiences like winnowing (separating impurities after threshing rice), traditional farm tool experiences, a nostalgic play area (threshing experience, rice cake pounding, traditional games, coin tossing, making sugar candy, etc.), a photo zone featuring kimchi stories, and fusion traditional music performances, providing joy to families visiting the site.

Especially, this event was conducted as an eco-friendly festival to create a carbon-neutral festival without waste, encouraging participants to bring their own kimchi containers, rubber gloves, and aprons to reduce the use of disposable items.

Kang Se-gwon, the head of the Jeonju City Agricultural Technology Center, stated, "We have prepared various experiential events and cultural activities for citizens to enjoy. We will continue to make efforts to ensure that the kimchi culture festival, blending taste and style, with the participation of many citizens, continues in the future."