
Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, is running an event in conjunction with the Hometown Love Donation System during the 22nd Hoengseong Korean Beef Festival, providing Hoengseong Korean beef worth 40,000 won as a gift for every donation of 100,000 won, and providing various benefits such as luge tickets, Anheung steamed buns, and rice sets.
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In celebration of the 22nd Hoengseong Korean Beef Festival, Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, is running an event to provide benefits to donors to revitalize the hometown love donation system and promote consumption of local specialties.
When you donate 100,000 won, you get Korean beef as a gift in return… Benefits such as Anheung steamed buns and fish cakes provided
(Hoengseong = Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Bo-yeon = Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, is running an event during the 22nd Hoengseong Korean Beef Festival that provides Korean beef, luge passes, and local specialties in connection with the Hometown Love Donation System.
The event will be held from the 7th to the 11th for visitors and hometown love donors, centered around the Seomgangdunchi Festival Complex Information Center.
The county explained that if you donate 100,000 won to Hoengseong-gun, you can receive a full tax deduction and 40,000 won worth of Hoengseong Korean beef as a gift.
Among those who have donated to Hoengseong-gun since September 1st, the first 250 people who visit the luge ticket booth during the festival period will receive two Hoengseong Luge tickets.
General visitors who visit the Hometown Love Donation System information booth and listen to an explanation of the system will receive one Anheung steamed bun for free.
A 1kg rice set consisting of 500g of glutinous rice and 500g of seaweed rice is also provided to donors who have returned to their hometown.
Through this event, the county plans to inform visitors of the Hoengseong Korean Beef Festival about the hometown love donation system and link it to local tourism and consumption of specialty products.
Hoengseong County Mayor Jang Shin-sang said on the 3rd, “I hope that visitors to the festival will experience the benefits of the Hometown Love Donation and Hoengseong’s various tourism and special products.”

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