Paju Jangdan Soybean Festival 2010

Paju Jangdan Soybean Festival 2010

Jangdan Soybean festival in Paju, South Korea was held for 3 days. I went there on Saturday for two days, 27 & 28th of November 2010. The theme of this festival is ‘soybeans’, a health food that has long been popular in Korea.

In particular, the ‘Jangdan Soybeans’ produced in the Paju province have always been highly regarded for their taste and outstanding nutritional value and were even served to the king. Furthermore, in the early 20th Century, the “Jangdan Soybeans’ were designated as the most superior soybeans in Korea and were distributed throughout the country.

During the festival we can taste the soybeans and learn how to make dishes made from soybeans including tteok (rice cakes), tofu, and preserved soybeans. ^_^

Also Paju is not a big city where you can find hotels to stay, instead you have to stay at some home. you can see the place where we stayed;

this memorial is at the entrance of the festival. 

there were lot of shops, we can buy many things from the festivals.

also we can have our sketch ^_^, few people are busy in this sketch making.

wow, lunch time... they are making roast for visitors ^_^

we can see lot of people walking and enjoying there.

a big statue of soybean ;)

me and my friend shin want to enjoy separating beans from the branches...

hmmm, nice photo, BTW these are my friends... ^_^

another big statue of beans...

lot of cars shows the number of visitors and that reflects the level of the festival.

our group photo at the end... say " 김치 (kimchi) " ^_^

we went for lunch to the best restaurant in paju, here are some pics. we ate noodles and sea food with lot of side dishes.  :) 

here are the lot of side dishes... wow ^_^
in korean restaurants they always give you lot of side dishes.

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SEOUL Lantern Festival 2010

< SEOUL Lantern Festival 2010>

When:	5 Nov 2010 ~ 21 Nov 2010
Where:	the region from cheonggye plaza, Majeongyo (bridge), gwangtonggyo (bridge) to  samilgyo (bridge).
Cost:	Free
Time:	From  2.00pm ~ 11.00pm

 Directions:       By Subway:    to City hall station (line 1,2) (exit 4),
                                                  or Gwanghwamun station (line 5) (exit 5),
                                                  or Jonggak station (line 1) (exit 4,5).   

Now I'm going to talk about all this festival !!

How to visit there?

1. Recommend to take a subway when you go to some place in seoul. if you don't know much about Seoul places it is good to take subway because subway has lot of information for foreigners.
 
    why : Most of bus stops are written in Korean not English, so it is absolutely difficult to find your destination. Therefore, it is much easier to take a subway to travel in Seoul.

<for us we transfer subway from the line number 2 to the line number 1 >

<If you arrived at the Jonggak station, you can find the signs >



If you want to have dinner?? you have to look for some restaurant

 

there are lot of restaurants in that area



< We went out at the exit 4 to have a dinner.
   I recommend this exit, if you want to buy something or have dinner also it leads you to the festival place>

< It took just about 2 minute to find the Market  >

<We found the lot of  food restaraunt. There were lots of restaraunts, so you can choose one>

 

What is useful tips when you watch the festival?

First of all, You have to wear warm clothes because the actual lamp festival begins at around 7:00 pm.

here are some pictures of the festival, i hope it will attract you ^_^