* Jeonju Sori Festival (전주세계소리축제), originally scheduled for September 23th - 27th.
* Chungju World Martial Arts Festival (충주세계무술축제) : originally scheduled for September 23th - 27th.
* Anseong Baudeogi Festival (안성남사당바우덕이축제): Originally scheduled for September 22nd through 27th.
* Bonghwa Pine Mushroom Festival (봉화송이축제): Originally scheduled for September 24th - 27th.
* Update: Ulsan World Music Festival: Originally scheduled for October 9th - 11th. Hat tip to commenter Jelly.
* Hamyang Watermill Festivals (물레방아축제): Originally scheduled for October 9th - 13th. Sometimes even I say "they have a festival for this?"
* Baekje Cultural Festival (공주부여백제문화제): I was actually looking forward to this, and had a preview post-dated for October 4th. Originally scheduled for October 9th - 18th.
* Jangseon Arirang Festival (장선아리랑축제): Originally scheduled for October 15th - 18th.
* Hoeongseong (sic) Hanu Festival (횡성한우축제): Originally scheduled for October 16th - 20th, though the website also says 15th - 19th.
It wins the prize for cutest mascots. I'm always tickled when restaurants, or festivals, have happy-looking cartoon depictions of the animals you're about to eat. Actually, if I hadn't read an article about this being cancelled, I never would have even heard of it. Scheduled performers included Son Dambi (I guess those cellphones will have to sell themselves that day) and Crown J (remember him?).
* Pottery Culture Festival (울주외고산옹기축제): Originally scheduled for who knows when, in Ulsan.
* Changwon Festival (창원페스티벌): Originally scheduled for October 24th.
A reader recently asked me if I had a list or knew how many festivals had been cancelled, but I said I didn't. Most of them aren't being reported in the English-language media---a lot of these "international" festivals didn't even put news of the cancellations out in English---so I just went to the homepages of the festivals I knew and checked, in addition to searching through Naver.
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Wow Brian, that's tragic for Korean tourism overall and for the residents who might have enjoyed these events. They proliferate wildly, but each offers *something* unique and worthwhile -- and just a break from normal everyday stessful-unfriendly life in Korea. I'm heading out to Taebaek-san this weekend with my special guest, to see the Cheonje Festival for Gaecheon-jeol... They say they're going ahead with it, really hope they don't cancel at the last-minute!!
I really don't understand why they're cancelling festivals. Why not cancel life? Quarrantine everyone indefinitely! Just a couple posts ago you mentiond a Guns and Roses concert. How come that's not been cancelled? There's a World Music Festival in Ulsan in October. I went last year and it was such a great time. It had better not be cancelled.
I had two kids sneeze - not ON me today, but definitely BESIDE me with no hand or tissue coverage whatsoever. I imagined their swine flu particles drifing through the air and right up my nose. When are they going to cancel school? Is it that the potential foreign tourists and participants are causing all the concern?
Ohhhhh *sadness!* I just visited the Ulsan World Music festival site (http://www.cheoyong.or.kr/structure/eng/default.asp) and was so pleased to see no mention of it being cancelled. Then I noticed my computer was blocking a pop-up, and sure enough - there was the cancellation notice. It's in English, too. They've been advised to cancel events that attract more than 1,000 people at a time and run more than 2 days. So you can add the "Cheoyong Culture Festival- 2009 World Music Festival" scheduled from Oct. 9th - 11th to your list. That SUCKS. Last year, Bajofondo were oustanding. I'm so bummed out, I'd been looking forward to this all year.
Jelly,
I take the position that these cities are cancelling the festivals because they simply can't afford them in these economic times. H1N1 is just a face saving way of canceling.
Funny how these events have been canceled but the Pusan Film Festival seems ok.
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