"Cooking rice in cauldron for 2,000 people."Icheon Rice Culture Festival Opens

[Anchor]
In Icheon, the center of our country's rice culture, a festival was held under the theme of 'rice'.

You can not only taste rice from Icheon, but also experience various things.

There is an issue reporter on the scene. Reporter Seo Jihyun!

[Reporter]
Yes, it's at the Icheon Rice Culture Festival.

[Anchor]
I heard you can have various farming experiences there.

[Reporter]
Yes, it is.

I'm out in the agricultural yard.

Can you see the golden field that's spread next to me right now?

Here, children can experience catching grasshoppers.

It was a huge rice cooking process for 2,000 people with Icheon rice.

Nearly 1,000 visitors can make delicious bibimbap with freshly cooked rice here.

The Icheon Rice Culture Festival, which marks its 23rd anniversary this year, is designed to promote Korea's rice culture and traditional agricultural culture.

Today is the opening game to celebrate the beginning of the festival, and there will be a good harvest wish, a harvest thanksgiving festival, and a funeral procession to pray for a good harvest in agriculture.

At the festival, you can experience almost everything related to Icheon rice.

Icheon Rice Master's Exhibition, which selects the best rice cookers, has also returned in six years.

In addition to the taste of rice, we plan to carefully examine and evaluate the cooking skills and attitude toward rice.

You can also experience a variety of agricultural cultures, including hand planting and threshing experience, and donkey and grasshopper experience, where you feel the joy of harvesting in the golden field.

Then let's listen to the stories of citizens who are enjoying the festival.

[Kim Kyung-hee/Icheon Mayor: Icheon Rice Culture Festival is a festival for farmers celebrating a good harvest and Daedong Nori Festival with tourists...]

[Ansung / Songjeong-dong, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do] The rice is savory and chewy. I come every year and eat it.]

There are also a variety of foods using Icheon rice.

You can taste Icheon's agricultural and special products such as Korean beef and honey, as well as ice cream and makgeolli made of Icheon rice.

There will also be an event to share 600m rainbow rice cake colored with five natural ingredients, such as white lotus and sweet pumpkin.My family

is someone who eats together.

Why don't you enjoy everything made of rice here and feel the importance of a meal with your family?

So far, I'm Seo Ji-hyun of YTN at the Icheon Rice Culture Festival.