South Korea hosts annual ice fishing festival

Thousands of people gathered in South Korea’s Hwacheon for the annual Mountain Trout fishing festival. I. Launched in 2003, the event was chosen as the nation's best festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2010 and had drawn more than 1 million visitors for 13 straight years. It is a world-famous annual ice fishing festival, offering weeks of ice fishing and seasonal activities.

Visitors from all over the nation arrived at the 300,000-square-meter festival ground. The fishing grounds will also be open at night and there will be foreigner-only fishing and resting areas.