This festival takes place in mid-March and celebrates the island's volcanic heritage with fire-related performances, music, and food.
Jeju Fire Festival is a representative cultural festival related to Jeju's culture of livestock care. Held every March at Saebyeoloreum Volcanic Cone, the night sky lights up with fiery red. The festival features a media façade show, torch march, fire show, and more as well as various programs and food trucks.
"The Jeju Field-Burning Festival is for cattle and horses by burning off old and wilted grass, as well as to kill vermin on the fields. According to the tradition, from late winter until early spring, the local villagers would start a fire on the fields. This was called bangae, one of the oldest stock farming skills.
"For three days each year, during the first full moon after the lunar New Year in the Korean calendar, a Fire Festival is held in Jeju Island (Jejudo). The Fire Festival is called Jeongwol Daeboruem, a very important national holiday in Korea.
"The festival is rooted in the tradition of bangae, in which farmers set their pastures alight to get rid of old grass and kill harmful pests between late winter and early spring, before the cattle and horses grazed in the fields.It was traditionally held on the first full moon of the new lunar year.Nowadays, however, it celebrates the arrival of spring, and takes place during gyungchip,
The 2023 Jeju Wild Fire Festival will be held from March 9th to 12th at Saebyeol Oreum in Aewol-eup, Jeju-si. The Wildfire Festival is expected to be held as a face-to-face festival in four years after the COVID-19 pandemic, so many people can experience and enjoy it in person.
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