Gwangju Kimchi Festival

*The festival content below reflects the previous year's (2025) festival contents, and the 2026 festival contents are currently being updated.* Jeonnam Gwangju Integrated Special City has long been a place that benefited from nature, with plains, mountains, fields, and the sea spread around the Yeongsan River, and has established itself as a city of taste. Among them, Jeonnam Gwangju Integrated Special City kimchi contains the richest flavor and atmosphere, to the point that it is known as a proper noun such as Jeolla-do kimchi and Jeonnam Gwangju Integrated Special City kimchi. Jeonnam Gwangju Integrated Special City kimchi is characterized by generously adding seasonings such as anchovy fish sauce, glutinous rice paste, and whole sesame seeds, along with various vegetables. Carefully selecting fresh ingredients, meticulously preparing them, making them in the most basic way, and then adding the maker's own touch of hand flavor, this is the special recipe of Jeonnam Gwangju Integrated Special City kimchi. The Gwangju World Kimchi Festival is a place for citizens to experience the meeting of our unique food culture and traditions contained in kimchi, and it is a festival for everyone to enjoy together as Korea's representative kimchi festival. It can be said to be a valuable festival where transactions and promotion between kimchi-related producers and consumers take place together.