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Hwacheon ice fishing festival wraps up with 1.6 million visitors

A popular annual ice fishing festival in Hwacheon, a mountain town in Gangwon Province, ended Sunday, attracting some 1.59 million visitors through its 23-day run, organizers said Sunday.

2026.2.2

Visitors enjoy ice fishing at the 2026 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival along the Hwacheon Stream in Hwacheon County, Gangwon on Jan. 25. [NEWS1]

Freezing cold fails to deter visitors from joining ice fishing festival in Gangwon

Hundreds of visitors crowded onto the frozen Hwacheon Stream in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, for this year’s Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, which kicked off on Jan. 10, unfazed by temperatures below freezing.

2026.1.27

Most popular

Visitors ice fish at the 2026 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, on Jan. 24. [YONHAP]

Number of visitors to Hwacheon ice fishing festival tops 1 million mark

The cumulative number of visitors to the world-famous annual ice fishing festival in Hwacheon County, a remote mountain town in Gangwon, has exceeded the 1 million mark, according to the event's organizers Saturday.

2026.1.25

A participant at the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival kisses a fish in his hands in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, on Jan. 10. [YONHAP]

Hwacheon kicks off world-renowned ice fishing festival, expecting upwards of one million visitors

Korea's world-famous annual ice fishing festival kicked off Saturday in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, offering weeks of ice fishing and seasonal activities for visitors from all over the globe.

2026.1.10

Visitors participate in bare hand fishing with their feet in water at the 2024 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival. [HWACHEON COUNTY]

Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival keeps heating up

Since 2003, the Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival has steadily increased in popularity to draw over 1 million visitors to Hwacheon County, population: 23,000. This year’s festival begins on Jan. 11 and lasts until Feb. 2 in all areas of Hwacheon...

2025.1.9

The Army officer that killed a woman, chopped up the body and dumped it into the Bukhan River, Gangwon, exits the warrant review hearing held at Chuncheon District Court on Tuesday. [PARK JIN-HO]

Arrest warrant issued for Army officer accused of killing woman and dismembering corpse

A local district court issued an arrest warrant for an Army officer who murdered a female civilian employee he worked with, mutilated her body, and dumped it in the Bukhan River.

2024.11.5

The 2023 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival kicked off on Jan. 7 at Hwacheon, Gangwon. Visitors are shown enjoying ice fishing for sancheoneo, a type of trout that only lives in clean fresh waters. [YONHAP]

Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival attracts thousands since opening

The 2023 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival, one of Korea’s most famous annual winter events to go ice fishing, kicked off earlier this month at Hwacheon, Gangwon, and continues until Jan. 29. It’s the first time in three years the festival is back...

2023.1.16

Flocking for fish

Visitors flock to the 2023 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon, Gangwon, on Sunday, the first time the event has resumed in three years.

2023.1.8

Frozen schedules

Though the venue for Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, is frozen thick enough, the organizer on Tuesday canceled the festival, originally scheduled for January, to prevent any further spread of Covid-19 infections.

2021.12.7

War remains

Honor guards carry caskets containing the remains of fallen soldiers during the Korean War (1950-53) to a joint funeral ceremony held at the headquarters of the 7th Army Division in Hwacheon County, Gangwon, on Thursday.

2021.11.18