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○ The Horizon Festival is hosted in the city of Gimje, southwest Korea’s breadbasket, located on the fertile Honam Plain. Since 1999, the festival has celebrated Korea’s age-old agrarian tradition, of which this region is one of the birthplaces, and Gimje’s scenic environs. The festivities take place every year in late September through early October.

○ Gimje is home to Byeokgolje (Historic Site No. 111), Korea’s oldest extant irrigation reservoir, built some 1700 years ago. The program, to unfold against this historic backdrop, offers a wealth of participatory activities related to farming.

○ Korean and international visitors are invited to participate in outdoor activities of traditional rural Korea, like making scarecrows, flying a kite, catching grasshoppers and riding an ox cart. A special talent contest for international visitors, folk performances, and drives through cosmos-lined country roads are also some of the highlights of the program.

○ This year, a group of volunteers, made up of both foreigners and visitors from Korea’s urban areas, who helped with rice planting in spring, will be returning to Gimje, to take part in the harvest and join in the celebrations (September 20-September 24).

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