Guests attend the 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Competition in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province, Sunday, the final day of the 23-day competition. Yonhap
The 2025 Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Competition, considered one of Korea’s hottest winter occasions, ended with a record-breaking turnout, the occasion’s organizers stated Sunday.
Marking its twentieth anniversary, the competition ran from Jan. 11 in Hwacheon, a distant mountain city in Gangwon Province, positioned 25 kilometers south of the inter-Korean border and about 90km northeast of Seoul.
This 12 months’s occasion attracted over 1.86 million guests, surpassing the earlier file of 1.84 million set in 2019.
Among the many attendees, 122,000 had been overseas guests — considerably larger than the 85,000 recorded final 12 months.
Since its debut in 2003, the competition has constantly attracted greater than 1 million guests virtually yearly, incomes world recognition. This 12 months’s version reached the 1 million milestone a day sooner than in 2024. (Yonhap)
