Yeongdong Grapes Festival 2024 영동포도 축제
Korea’s largest vineyard region, offers grape-themed activities, competitions, and wine experiences, celebrating the area’s high-quality grapes..
Yeongdong-gun County in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, home to Korea’s largest vineyard, hosts the annual Yeongdong Grapes Festival at the end of August, celebrating its grape cultivation and the high quality of its produce. Visitors can participate in grape picking, tasting, and various grape-themed activities like making grape desserts, wine, and soap, dancing in a grape pool, and catching floating grapes. The festival also features competitions such as grape darts and a grape-carrying mini-marathon. Highlights include grape sales, grape stomping, and engaging children’s programs, offering dozens of experiences like wine making, juice processing, and traditional handicrafts. Besides you can stop to visit the famous Yeongdong Wine Tunnel, a 420m-long wine storage tunnel, features the Wine Culture Hall and the Yeongdong Wine Hall, showcasing and selling locally produced wines, making it Korea’s top wine-producing region and a must-visit for grape and wine enthusiasts.
Overview
- Period : August 29 – 1 September, 2024
- Venue : Yeongdong Rainbow Healing Tourist Area
- Main Program:
- Performances: Opening ceremony, Saturday culture performance, event during weekdays
- Grape Activities: Grape picking, grape stomping, grape fishing, grape rolling, searching for grapes, etc.
- Wine Experience: Well-being wine foot bath, wine making
- Crafts Experience: Handkerchief dyeing using natural dye, balloon art using Yeongdong grapes, making grape bingsu (shaved ice dessert), making chocolates, grape gummy candy, masks and soaps, clay art, hanji crafts , etc.
- Water Activities for Children: Trampoline, puzzle, inflatable slide, etc.
- Admission Fee: Fees varies depending on activities
Official Website: http://www.ydgrape.co.kr/ / https://yd21.go.kr/ydft/#
Images Source: Official Yeongdong Website
