Gijang Anchovy Festival (2019.4.25)

Anchovy Festival at Daebyeon Port on the East Coast of Busan

Located about an hour’s drive from downtown Busan, it is the Gijang Big Anchovy Festival held at the end of April every year at Daebyeon Port in Gijang-gun. Near Daebyeon Port in Gijang-gun, there are Lotte Mall Dongbu Sanjeom and Ikea, where Lotte Outlet and Lotte Mart are located in 2015, and Yonggungsa Temple is visited by many locals, so it is good to participate in the Daebyeon Anchovy Festival held at this time of year.

Busan Gijang Daebyeon Port

At the Gijang Anchovy Festival, many tourists’ mouths and eyes are entertained by tasting anchovy sashimi, which is a specialty of Gijang, and events where fishermen in blue raincoats pull strings vigorously to the rhythm and shake off silver anchovies from nets. You can also enjoy Etc anchovy dishes such as fresh anchovies, cabbage, and water parsley, which are filled with spicy seasoning dishes such as fresh anchovies, 10,000 won, and 5,000 won for fried anchovies.

Gijang Anchovy Festival

In addition, various fish-related events are prepared, and it is also a beautiful fishing village that shows the childhood of a friend of a movie starring Korean actors Jang Dong-gun and Yoo Oh-sung, released in 2001.