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Hwacheon Sancheoneo Festival. As Gangwon Province is South Korea's coldest region, Hwacheon is home to the yearly Hwacheon Sancheoneo ice fishing festival in which thousands of visitors try to catch as many sancheoneo (Korean: 산천어, wild trout) as possible. [7] This takes place in the Hwacheoncheon (stream) during nearly the entire month ...
In 2004's team were Australia, South Korea, China, and Italy. 2005's team were South Korea, the United States, China, and Italy. In 2007 only three countries, South Korea, the United States, and Japan attended. In 2008 only two countries, South Korea and Hong Kong, took part; however, In 2010 South Korea, Canada, and China attended.
In Hwacheon, South Korea, a large ice fishing festival is held every January. The Ice Festival draws nearly a million visitors every year, [14] and thousands of people have taken part in a contest to catch fish in a frozen Hwacheoncheon (a tributary of the Han River). [15]
The fishing industry of South Korea started to boom after rapid economic growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at a rate of 7% between the 1970s and the 2000s. [4] During 1960s and 1970s, South Korea’s export of fishery products peaked at approximately 17.5% of their total export value, becoming a key driver of the nation's total GDP.
The species Coreoperca Herzi is found only in South Korean fresh waters, mostly in the rivers. The species is very common, so they exist in almost every rivers in Korea. At first, the species did not live on the eastern side of the Paektu Mountains, only on the western side. However, the species were moved artificially in order to flourish also ...
The festival is divided among three main venues: Sun Island, where the art of snow sculpting is on full display; Zhaolin Park, with its display of ice lanterns; and the primary site, Harbin Ice ...
Coreoperca herzi (Herzenstein, 1896) – Korean perch (꺽지) Coreoperca kawamebari (Temminck et Schlegel, 1842) – Japanese aucha perch (꺽저기) Eleotris oxycephala (Temminck et Schlegel, 1845) – spined sleeper (구굴무치) Favonigobius gymnauchen (Bleeker, 1860) – sharp-nosed sand goby (날개망둑)
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