Snow falls on visitors ice fishing on a frozen river during the ongoing annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County in Gangwon on Sunday.
Snow falls on visitors ice fishing on a frozen river during the ongoing annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County in Gangwon on Sunday. The wintertime festival, first launched in 2003, usually attracts more than one million people annually, and the county said that the cumulative visitors this year has surpassed 500,000 so far. The 23-day event is set to run through Jan. 28 and involves activities including bare-hand fishing, sledding and ice football. Sancheoneo is a Korean freshwater mountain trout. [YONHAP]
![Snow falls on visitors ice fishing on a frozen river during the ongoing annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival in Hwacheon County in Gangwon on Sunday. The wintertime festival, first launched in 2003, usually attracts more than one million people annually, and the county said that the cumulative visitors this year has surpassed 500,000 so far. The 23-day event is set to run through Jan. 28 and involves activities including bare-hand fishing, sledding and ice football. Sancheoneo is a Korean freshwater mountain trout. [YONHAP]](https://img2.daumcdn.net/thumb/R658x0.q70/?fname=https://t1.daumcdn.net/news/202401/14/koreajoongangdaily/20240114170931980ldem.jpg)