
Taken from the site's photo gallery because I couldn't find anything good in the papers, and this year's poster is boring compared to 2008's.
It's held at Daegwang Beach (대광해수욕장) on Imja-do, an island of roughly 4,000 in Shinan county, one of the three counties in Jeollanam-do comprised entirely of islands. Imja-do is accessible by ferry from the terminal in Jido-eup (점암선착장), and Jido-eup is in turn connected to the mainland. The bottom of this page has ferry times and fees, in Korean. Buses make the two-and-a-half hour trip from Gwangju's bus terminal to 점암선착장---making several stops in between---each day at 6:45, 7:45, 8:20, 9:50, 11:30, 13:20, 14:25, 16:00, and 18:55, and buses from Mokpo head to Jido nearly once an hour, though in both cases make sure you check at the ticket counter and with the driver.


The location of Imja-do, from a Naver map. See, Korean maps don't have "Yellow Sea" and "Sea of Japan" alongside the local names.
This year's fun fact is that the festival mascot is a tulip-looking angel thing named Tuli. Shinan, probably more properly romanized as Sinan, is comprised of 1,004 islands. One-thousand-four in Korean is 천사, same as angel.
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Hey Brian...thanks alot for the shared information
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