Jeju Island Fire Festival

Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival is an annual fire festival on the island that stems from a custom of removing harmful insects and old grass in villages every winter. The fire festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month each year (typically in February). Dal-gip(to pile up much wood) is burned when the moon rises while praying for good harvests and making good wishes. It is Jeju Island’s biggest events that attract many tourist flocked to the island.

Jeju traditional food is all eaten at the site of the festival. The Jeju Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival started in 1997 and become a leading festival of Jeju. This takes place in Saebyeol Oreum located in Bongseong ri, Aewol Eup. It takes up 25 minutes from Jeju international Airport by car. Jeju citizens do their utmost to prepare the Fire Festival so as to pass down, develop and ultimately develop branding for the unique folk culture resources of Jeju Island.

Saebyeol oreum has a characteristic of a complex volcano. It has the horseshoe shaped crater that is both very wide and slightly splitted. Also, it is rising high with the little peaks making oval from the south peak to northwest. The scale is above the sea level 519.3m, height 119m, circumference 2,713m, area 522,216m. Saebyeol oreum, which is the middle size among the 360 oreums in Jeju island. It’s named after the saying “it brightens like a star”.

The Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival originates from the traditional harvesting of the grasses found in the local domestic farm animal pastures, which were annually set in fire each winter by the Jeju villagers as a way to exterminate harmful insects. The Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival has been held annually since 1997. It is a about 45 minutes bus ride from Jeju-si Local Bus Terminal. It gets extremely busy directly after the festival finishes (7/8pm), so it’s sometime worth staying around for a beer or a meal for an hour or two until the worst of the traffic has gone. Another Jeju’s exotic attractions is Manjanggul, it is one of the longest lava tubes in the world.

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