Korean Traditional Drink and Cake Festival
March 30 ~ April 5, 2002

This festival will feature two of Korea's main traditional food cultural resources alcoholic beverages and rice cakes. Taking place in Gyeongju, the ancient city of the Shilla Kingdom, the event is filled with opportunities to observe, make and taste special wines and rice cakes, which will enhance people's understanding of the Korean culture and its regions. Visitors will find culture, Korean experts and a comprehensive selection of the entire country's traditional drinks and rice cakes exhibited in one venue. Many kinds of tools, materials and ingredients will be on display, proffering tasting opportunities of snacks warm from the steamers of the rice cake factory set up at the festival. Visitors are also invited to try their hand at making rice cakes. This colorful festival when combined with the wealth of cultural elements available in this historical city will be an enriching and memorable experience.

Main Events
Traditional alcoholic beverage and rice cake demonstration and tasting, beverage and rice cake exhibition, making beverages and rice cakes, equipment exhibition, exhibition of beverages and rice cakes native to sister cities, Make-your-own rice cake and beverages, Shilla traditional music performance, rice cake slicing contest and dough kneading demonstrations.
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