Upcoming events in Korea - Sancheoneo ( Mount Trout ) Festival

Real winter covered with snow and ice in every January in the whole area of Hwacheon, Gangwon-do that is famous for clean region where Sancheoneo and otter live. Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival is opened in every January under the slogan of “Unfrozen Hearts, Unforgettable Memories” at Hwacheon that has geographical feature of the fastest ice freezing in the country because of cold valley wind and clean water. This is unique theme experience festival full with good shows and 40 or about various experience programs such as ice sledding, snow sledding, snow sculpture and ice soccer, Sancheoneo experience programs combined with the image of Hwacheon that has clean natural environment with the first grade clean water in Bukhangang (river) for catching Sancheoneo by hand, Sancheoneo fishing on the ice to catch the fish easily and enjoy the fishing by everybody, breaking the ice with 40cm thickness and above and looking at Sancheoneo in the deep water for your exciting play available for experiencing at Hwacheon only and heart-warm memory in winter.

● Title of Event: The 8 th Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival ● Place: Hwacheoncheon site at Hwacheon-eup, Hwacheon-gun,    Gangwon-do and other 5 eup and myeon ● Period: January 9 (Saturday) 2010 ~ January 31 (Sunday) (23days) ● Slogan: Unfrozen Hearts, Unforgettable Memories ● Opened by: Hwacheon-gun ● Supervised by: Hwacheon-gun Nara Festival Organizing Comittee ● Sponsored by: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Gangwon-do,    Local Institutions and Social Bodies, Regional Military Units This is 2010 Superior Festival of Culture & Tourism in Korea by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.   Sancheoneo Experience Program

Sancheoneo , Sancheoneo , Winter Sancheoneo ! To mention about ice fishing, you need to catch at least one Sancheoneo. It is an elegant fish underneath ice out of comparison to the other fishes due to moderate size and beautiful shape. Sancheoneo is hard to catch as it is rare but everyone can catch one or two Sancheoneo at Hwacheon with somewhat good luck and knack since 32 or 3 tons of fresh Sancheoneo are being put just under the fishing place every day for visitors for Sancheoneo festival. It is just the reason why a child or young girl without fishing experience is indulged in Sancheoneo ice fishing. Hwacheoncheon (stream), with 9-thousand ice holes for ice fishing on perfectly frozen ice, is clean water in depth of 2 meter or about, so you can find Sancheoneo that are swimming beneath the ice. Hearing shouts of joy saying, “I caught it!” here and there, many people put their heads near to the ice and shake hands up and down eagerly. Reserved fishing place is better than the spot fishing place if you want to catch more Sancheoneo. One of the knacks is not be stuck on one fishing spot, as swimming pattern of grouped Sancheoneo may be changed in accordance with time due to Sancheoneo property.

Follow this link http://www.narafestival.com/07_global/?f_code=02_01&lang=eng to get more information about this festival!