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19 November 2025

A stream runs beside Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025, where the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival takes place. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate during the festival, creating jobs, and this year the event achieves record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue.

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19 November 2025

A stream runs beside Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025, where the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival takes place. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate during the festival, creating jobs, and this year the event achieves record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue.

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19 November 2025

A cabbage field is on the outskirts of downtown Gangneung, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. Gangwon Province hosts a kimchi festival in Pyeongchang since 2014, using its signature highland cabbage.

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19 November 2025

Pre-registered participants make kimchi using salted cabbage and seasoning at the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival experience zone at Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. For 68,000 won, visitors make and take home 10 kilograms of kimchi, with festival assistants guiding those unfamiliar with the process. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate, creating jobs, and this year the event reaches record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue. Kimjang, a traditional Korean practice held in late autumn, involves preparing large quantities of kimchi for the winter and embodies a communal culture where neighbors share labor and strengthen social bonds

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19 November 2025

Pre-registered participants make kimchi using salted cabbage and seasoning at the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival experience zone at Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. For 68,000 won, visitors make and take home 10 kilograms of kimchi, with festival assistants guiding those unfamiliar with the process. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate, creating jobs, and this year the event reaches record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue. Kimjang, a traditional Korean practice held in late autumn, involves preparing large quantities of kimchi for the winter and embodies a communal culture where neighbors share labor and strengthen social bonds

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19 November 2025

Pre-registered participants make kimchi using salted cabbage and seasoning at the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival experience zone at Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. For 68,000 won, visitors make and take home 10 kilograms of kimchi, with festival assistants guiding those unfamiliar with the process. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate, creating jobs, and this year the event reaches record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue. Kimjang, a traditional Korean practice held in late autumn, involves preparing large quantities of kimchi for the winter and embodies a communal culture where neighbors share labor and strengthen social bonds

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19 November 2025

Pre-registered participants make kimchi using salted cabbage and seasoning at the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival experience zone at Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. For 68,000 won, visitors make and take home 10 kilograms of kimchi, with festival assistants guiding those unfamiliar with the process. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. Residents actively participate, creating jobs, and this year the event reaches record attendance with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue. Kimjang, a traditional Korean practice held in late autumn, involves preparing large quantities of kimchi for the winter and embodies a communal culture where neighbors share labor and strengthen social bonds

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#13004060

19 November 2025

Yim Seong-il, head of the Enterprise Support Team at Gangwon National University's Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and Industry-Academic Technology Innovation Center, explains the university's Innopolis Campus project to foreign correspondents at the Startup Cube in Chuncheon, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. The project, with a total budget of 486 million won (approx. $350,000), focuses on identifying and supporting prospective founders with technology-based startup ideas, establishing an integrated support system for technology startups, and strengthening investment infrastructure and networks for the growth of tech startup companies.

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19 November 2025

A staff member at Gangwon Technopark's New Materials Center in Gangneung explains the center-owned hot press (VHP-8001500-50T), manufactured by Samyang Ceratech, to foreign correspondents in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. The equipment densifies and controls the microstructure of high-performance ceramics, composites, and structural materials under high-temperature and high-pressure inert gas conditions. Due to its high cost, the center provides access to companies that would otherwise be unable to acquire it.

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#13004078

19 November 2025

Foreign correspondents visit the headquarters of Hass Co., Ltd. (HASS), located adjacent to Gangwon Technopark's New Materials Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. Originally incubated with support from Gangwon Technopark, Hass grows into an independent success story with its own building nearby and now develops and manufactures dental prosthetic materials, including glass ceramics and zirconia, for global markets.

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19 November 2025

Foreign correspondents visit MiCo Ceramics in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. MiCo Ceramics, a leading young enterprise in Gangneung, pioneers the localization of core functional ceramic components like Ceramic Heaters and ESCs (Electrostatic Chucks) used in the semiconductor manufacturing process, and continuously expands its production capacity.

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19 November 2025

Employees inspect semiconductor manufacturing equipment components at MICO Ceramics near the Gangwon Technopark Advanced Materials Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. The company is regarded as one of the city's leading young firms, with more than 220 employees, many of them in their 30s.

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19 November 2025

Employees inspect semiconductor manufacturing equipment components at MICO Ceramics near the Gangwon Technopark Advanced Materials Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. The company is regarded as one of the city's leading young firms, with more than 220 employees, many of them in their 30s.

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19 November 2025

Employees inspect semiconductor manufacturing equipment components at MICO Ceramics near the Gangwon Technopark Advanced Materials Center in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 6, 2025. The company is regarded as one of the city's leading young firms, with more than 220 employees, many of them in their 30s.

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19 November 2025

Gyeonghak Cho, an officer with the ITS Operations Team in Gangneung City's ITS Promotion Division, explains the advanced functions of the Urban Information Center and the city's preparations for the ITS World Congress at the center's promotional hall in Gangneung, South Korea, on November 7, 2025.

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19 November 2025

Participants prepare kimchi during the 2025 Pyeongchang Highland Kimchi Festival at Jinbu Civic Sports Park in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, on November 7, 2025. For 68,000 won, visitors make and take home 10 kilograms of kimchi, with festival assistants guiding those unfamiliar with the process. Launched in 2014, the festival promotes the quality of Pyeongchang's highland cabbage, preserves the UNESCO-listed kimjang tradition, and supports local farmers. The event also creates seasonal jobs for residents and reaches its highest performance this year with 60,000 visitors and 3 billion won in revenue.

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