Happy Winter! Farmland Winter Games Festival 2016

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1. Event duration: December 18, 2015 – February 14, 2016

2. Location: 28, Daesindu-gil, Gongdo-eup, Anseong-si, Gyeonggi-do

3. Event venue: Anseong Farmland

4. Contact information: 031-8053-7979 / Group tour inquiry: 031-8053-7909, 7900)

5. Website: http://www.nhasfarmland.com

6. Host/supervision: National Agricultural Cooperative Federation Anseong Farmland/ Tel. 031-8053-7979

7. Event introduction: Anseong Farmland, located in Anseong City of Gyeonggi Province, hosts the ‘Happy Winter! Farmland Winter Games Festival’ from December 18, 2015, to February 14, 2016. This year, Anseong Farmland has opened its new snow sledding field. Visitors can enjoy an even more thrilling sledding experience on an open field. Visitors can also try ice-sledding and snowshoeing as well as other traditional winter games. Over the weekends in the month of January, adults and children can participate in a competition for sliding the longest distance on fertilizer burlap sacks. Near its snow sledding field, Anseong Farmland also has a food zone, ice sledding slope, Korean papier-mâché experience hall, and farm animal hall. On January 1, 2016, Anseong Farmland will open up its facilities for free between 6:00am and 8:00am so that visitors can enjoy sunrises in the field. Other activities including the farm animal experience, horseback riding, tractor carriage, and dairy farming, all of which will be open for regular business hours.

8. Event contents:

[Free programs]

– Snow sledding in a field/Sledding on ice/Let’s make a snowman
– Snowshoeing/Lighting a bonfire (extra charge for rice cake sticks & roasted chestnuts)
– Games including Jegichagi/Yutnori/Tuho/Gulleongswae(hoop)
– Dog show/farm animal quiz show
– Field photo exhibition
– Magic art hall/Illustrated book hall/History hall
– Traditional life exhibition hall/Papier-mâché doll exhibition hall
– Choji Dulle-gil trail 

[Paid programs]

– Tractor carriages
– Unique bicycles
– Pinwheel/kite-flying
– Feeding farm animals
– Horseback riding
– Papier-mâché doll making
– Diary farming (pizza baking/cheese making)
– Children’s facilities (merry-go-round, mini biking, mini-train, trampoline)

9. Additional events:

2016
January 1        New Year’s sunrise event (06:00~08:00 free admission, 10:00~18:00 regular business hours(paid admission))
January 1-3     Free 2016 Farmland desktop calendars for guests after 10:00am (given away by order of arrival)
January 1-19   Free minicars for children visiting Mokwon and Farm Farm (available in order of arrival)
January 1-31   Slidingce contest on fertilizer burlap sacks (weekends and holidays)

http://korean.visitkorea.or.kr/kor/bz15/where/festival/festival.jsp?cid=1764228