Jinan Highland Kimchi Bossam Festival

The Jinan Highland Kimchi Bossam Festival is a local festival held in Jinan-gun, Jeonbuk State, created to spread a community culture in which families and neighbors come together by combining gimjang, the uniquely Korean tradition of making kimchi for winter, with a festival. Amid a changing food environment marked by nuclear families and the rise of 1-person households, it aims to revisit the traditional value of gimjang culture and share neighborly warmth by making and sharing kimchi together. A variety of hands-on and participatory events are held, including gimjang experiences using local produce grown in the clean natural environment of the Jinan Highlands and kimchi and bossam food programs, and the festival also promotes the excellence of local specialty products and encourages consumption of local produce. It is a festival where you can experience both the passing down of traditional gimjang culture and the value of local produce.