▲ The Health Festival of Citizens of the World

Chungnam-do and Guemsan-gun announced in the opening of the 33rd Geunsan Ginseng Festival that they will hold ‘Geumsan Ginseng World Expo’ in next year. The main reason to hold this expo is that the market of ginseng industry is going down so they will breakthrough this hardship by holding this expo and also they agreed that they need to advertise excellence of Goryeo(Korean) ginseng.

Chungnam-do wants to share their happiness of the third year harvest with people in the world in ‘2017 Geumsan World Ginseng Expo’. In 2006, we discovered potential health benefits from ginsengs, and in 2011, we proved that ginseng could be a big part of the bio industry.

In 2017, we will show the people in the world that ginsengs can be a part of humankinds’ science and culture through the expo in Geumsan. With the main slogan of the event ‘The root of life’, Geumsan want to share their happiness of the third year harvest.

In this expo, they will communicate with ginseng industries all over the world and will prepare various sorts of events like hands-on experiences and cultural performances to make people can see the history and culture of ginseng, health and life, industries and sciences, now and future vividly.

Geumsan Ginseng Festival has very long history of 33 years and if we can combine this experience and the experience of two ginseng expo, this could be one of world-class festivals. And with a support from the governor of Chungnam-do, An Hee Jung and citizens in 15 cities and guns(counties), this expo will be the great event among all the festivals in worldwide. We are preparing colorful enjoyments and everything about ginsengs, so please have a lot of expectation and interests for the 2017 Geumsan Ginseng Expo.