"Gimbap and dumplings"...a snack menu that has become the main character of the festival.

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Gimbap and dumplings. Do you eat them often?

Food festivals are being held everywhere with the theme of common snack menus around us.

I want to do a festival with gimbap and dumplings, but they are popular.Reporter

introduces you.

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Steamed dumplings.

Thin fried dumplings are cooked to a golden brown color.Whether it's

, or kimchi, I wonder if there's a place in the country where there's no place in the country. Actually, dumplings.

But dumplings are the main characters in this festival.The whole street

is filled with dumplings.

It is the Wonju Dumpling Festival in Gangwon-do that first started last year.

Let's start with a competition where we make things quickly and eat quickly,

You can also make it and eat it as you please.

[Kim Ki Sung / Wonju Dumpling Festival visitor: There are so many different kinds of dumplings, so it was nice to have a lot to enjoy. And I think it was better because the taste was so good.]

What does Wonju have to do with dumplings?

If you look at it, there's a decades-long history.

Gangwon Province, especially Wonju, is famous for kimchi dumplings.

6.25 전쟁 직후 이 일대 주둔한 미군에게 원조받은 밀가루가 시초인데요.

Wonju dumplings are made of cabbage leaves that were common in the rice fields around the market and then dried.

Even now, there are many old-fashioned dumpling restaurants with decades of history all over the basement of traditional markets.

[Won Young-ja / Wonju Free Market Dumpling Restaurant Merchant: We don't have enough hands. I'm busy. (I'm here to help you make dumplings) Next to you is a big grandson, the youngest grandchild, and the youngest daughter-in-law over there. It's very pretty and slow.]

The festival was held for the first time last year, and as many as 200,000 people visited it.

I've grown up a little bit this year because of the unexpected jackpot.

What comes to mind when you think of Gimcheon in North Gyeongsang Province?

Most of the younger generation spoke of 'Gimbap Heaven', a franchise restaurant.

On the other hand, Gimcheon-si completely changed its mind at the result of the survey, which was funny but sad.

We planned a festival with the theme of gimbap.

The theme of the Gimcheon Gimbap Festival, which was held for the first time this year, is a picnic.This is because

picnic reminds me of the gimbap I used to eat on a mat,
Just as the kimbap brought during the
picnic is different, all the unique national kimbap restaurants were out at the festival.Long queues per

store.

[Choi Ga-yul/Choi Nak-ju/Gimcheon Gimbap Festival Visitors: There are many types of Gimbap that I haven't tried before, so I'm going to try them all. My wife is buying it right now. Kimchi kimbap. I want to eat gimbap with kimchi the most.]

It is a unique food festival that started by melting each situation and background for local games.

It is a common snack menu around, but it has established itself as a unique tourist product.

I'm YTN Jihwan.

Reporter: Sung Do-hyun and Dae-woong