The 34th annual Jindo Sea-Parting Festival (or Jindo Sea Road Festival 진도 신비의 바닷길 축제) was one of several early-spring cancelled in February and March because of concerns over foot-and-mouth disease. However, 50,000 people---including 2,000 foreigners by Yonhap's estimation---participated in the twice-yearly sea-parting event between Gogumyeon's Hoedong-ri and the small island of Modo. The tide goes out and opens a 2.8-kilometer path, though on the 19th people could only walk out roughly 40 meters, according to the article.
In 2010, according to a Newsis article, 440,000 tourists attented the festival, among them 25,000 foreigners.
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Yes, they could only walk out 40m because Yanhap didn't stay. I was there and saw people make it all the way to Modo. I took too many pictures and video to do the round trip before the tide came in, but I made it more than 2k into the sea.
50k? Not sure about that number, since the festival was technically canceled.
Yep, just relaying the info from Yonhap's article (it and YTN were the only ones covering it yesterday, and no English-language reports until sometime next week, I'm sure). 50,000 sounded really high, though I guess when you consider the turnout in previous years it could be possible. Not really sure what a "festival" would add to it . . . I'd been to the "festival" before, and the main attraction was definitely wading into the water, not soju tents, performances, or cute Jindo Dog puppies.
Had I known it was no longer canceled, I would have gone.
Yeah, the "festivals" themselves are cancelled, but as I wrote before the natural phenomena like tides or blossoms aren't.
I was just there! I went because -- like you said -- whether or not there was a festival, the tide would still happen. And there also, surprisingly, happened to be a festival with performances, food, and whatnot.
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