Jinju Lantern Festival | 진주 남강 유등 축제

In October 2014, i conducted my first free trip in Korea from Korea Tourism Organization ore usually we called KTO as a global supporter. A little bit about the background of the application, i arrived in Korea at late August, saw the announcement in September directly applied to it without any hesitation without knowing 'what's the job description do i have to do?' "i can't speak any korean, am i eligible? will i survive?' But randomly choosing this festival all out of 10 festivals. And i am accepted as the supporter, and the story goes.

Let's learn Korean language, just a little bit

진주 Jinju, small beautiful city in southern part of Korea
남강 Namgang, southern river in Korea
유등 Yudeng, Lantern
축제 Chukje, Festival

With this 4 vocabularies, what could you imagine? the festival took place in Jinju, at a river, it must has a lantern, not only a lantern but huge and numerous lanterns.

 Pic 1.1 10000 Red lanterns tunnel

 Pic 1.2 Bridge at the Namgang with thousands of lantern

 Pic 1.3 Day view before the festival was opened

Pic 1.4 A bowl of special Beef tartar Jinju Bibimbap

Actually this festival is one of the most visited festivals during autumn. If you get the chance make sure you put this festival in your bucket list when you visit Korean in autmn.