Busan Mackerel Festival

The Busan Mackerel Festival has been held every October since 2008 at Songdo Beach, Korea's first public beach, which possesses diverse tourism resources such as the Songdo Yonggung Cloud Bridge, Songdo Cloud Walkway, and Songdo Marine Cable Car, and is emerging as a hot place in Korea. It was planned to create a synergy effect for revitalizing the local economy and fostering the tourism industry through the tourism commercialization of the festival linked with food, culture and arts, and tourism resources, utilizing the regional characteristics of being home to the Large-Scale Purse Seine Fisheries Cooperative, which catches about 90% of the mackerel produced in nearby waters, and the Busan Cooperative Fish Market, where 80% of the nation's mackerel volume is traded. With the national fish mackerel as its theme, it is planned and participated in and promoted together by fisheries officials and local residents, and its reputation is growing as not a simple food festival but a cultural and arts festival with things to see and enjoy, and as Korea's representative fisheries cultural festival that fosters and develops fisheries-related industries. It operates unique and novel experience, tour, exhibition, competition, and performance programs, including the representative programs of the Busan Cooperative Fish Market on-site experience, catching mackerel with bare hands, and surprise mackerel auction, as well as kayaking to find mackerel, mackerel paper boat racing, a seafood direct transaction market, and a mackerel food market, providing domestic and foreign tourists with opportunities to enjoy a unique festival.

Program

1. Main Program
- 맨손 고등어 잡기, 카약타고 고등어 찾기, 고등어 깜짝 경매, 고등어 종이배 경주대회, 날아라! 고등어 로켓
Performance Program
- 개막 축하 콘서트(10.30.) : 부산 서구 여성합창단, 가수 나상도, 백수정, 레트로 혼성밴드 카운트다운
- 로컬스타 인 서구(10.31.) : 지역 동아리, 협회 등 주민들이 직접 참여하는 참여형 공연
- 송도 버스킹 PLAY(10.31.~11.1.) : 마리오네트 인형극 버스킹 공연
- 고등어 핫 스테이지(11. 1.) : 청년밴드 탄단지, 로코밴드, 밴드 SORA 공연
- 송도 청춘 나이트(11. 1.) : DJ 미노, 2인조 여성 걸그룹, 라이브 퍼포먼스 공연팀 비스타
3. 참여프로그램
- 부산공동어시장 현장 체험, 고등어 신메뉴 미식 체험, 송도 스트릿 댄스대회, 고등어 피지컬 챌린지 등
4. 부대프로그램
- 고등어 먹거리장터, 수산물 직거래 장터, 송도청년마켓, 고등어 위시카드, 희망교육·평생학습 축제, 남항대교 걷기대회, 부산전통연희페스티벌 등