"Between urban and fishing villages"...Jeollanam-do's representative seafood consumption promotion event!

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There is a saying that if you eat fish, you can live up to 100 years old.

However, due to the poor economy, fishery consumption has decreased and the increased water temperature last summer has caused enormous damage, causing great difficulties for fishermen.

In order to help these fishermen, a Hanmadang is being held for cities and fishing villages to live together.

Reporter Kim Bum-hwan reports.

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Gwangju 'Chungjang Festival of Memories' held to revive the movies of Chungjang-ro in the 1970s and 1980s and revitalize the old city center,
In the middle of the
Chungjang Festival, Jeollanam-do's representative seafood marketplace has been set up.

A show of dismantling skate that weighs more than 8kg.

While fermented skate has a pungent taste as if its nose is open, fresh skate that has just been dismantled is perfect as you chew.

[Lee Im-ki / Gwangju Chungjang Festival Tourist: When I came here and ate it, the skate was so cold and delicious that I ate a lot of skate.]

As a representative health food since ancient times, freshwater eels, which have been donated hundreds of millions of won to national athletes, are also baked golden.Wando, the '∀ healing capital' of
{해양}, has released abalone, kelp, and seaweed, which account for 70% of the nation's production.

Abalone is trimmed and presented as a variety of processed products for consumers to eat at home.

[Kim Yi-jung / Wando Geumil Suhyup official: We came out after developing kelp soju with a local brewing company, and since our kelp is famous, we wanted to introduce nutritious abalone that was fed kelp.]

In Jeollanam-do's representative direct market for seasonal seafood, which marks its seventh anniversary this year, 12 fisheries cooperatives in Jeollanam-do are presenting more than 30 products.

In order to help fishermen and urban residents, we have opened a direct market to buy seafood at a low price at the association in Jeollanam-do.

[Kim Moon-soo / Chairman of the Agricultural and Fishery Committee of the Jeollanam-do Council: If Gwangju citizens come to this direct market sold by Suhyup and buy a lot, it will be of great help to farmers and fishermen in Jeollanam-do]

The Chungjang Festival Hall, which sells as much as 40% cheaper than the market price and will also hold seafood cooking demonstrations, will continue until tomorrow (4th).

I'm Kim Bum Hwan of YTN.