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Jeungpyeong Ginseng Valley Festival is a representative regional festival held every fall and has provided food, performances, and experience programs centered on ginseng. This year, to strengthen the image of Jeungpyeong as a smart city, a new experience booth incorporating cutting-edge technologies such as AI, robots, VR and AR was prepared.
Jeungpyeong = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Jae-cheon = Jeungpyeong-gun, North Chungcheong Province, announced on the 28th that it will hold the 33rd Jeungpyeong Ginseng Bone Festival in the area of Bojangcheon Sports Park from the 8th to the 11th of next month.
This year, the food, performance, and experiential content were further strengthened by focusing on ginseng, a representative agricultural product of the region, and the color of a smart city was also added to the festival.
The county and the Ginseng Valley Festival Promotion Committee will hold a new 'Jeungpyeong Ginseng Korean Beef Bulgogi Festival', and the existing red ginseng pork pork belly tasting will be replaced with sales.
In addition, as a nighttime content, a 'network party' combining ginseng and beer will be presented with guest performances such as Team Siren and Kiv.
At the festival site, an experiential booth will also be set up in connection with the on-device artificial intelligence (AI) service demonstration and diffusion project, the large-scale convergence robot demonstration support project, and the 4th industrial technology integrated tourism platform construction project.
In addition to experiencing the operation of care robots and librarian robots, you can also experience virtual convergence content using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) equipment and simulators.
The Military Song Contest, a content that utilizes military-related resources in Jeungpyeong, such as the Army's 37th Division, is being held for the second time since last year.
There will also be a Ginsenggol Song Festival featuring singers Bada, Heo Gak, Jinwook, etc., a K-POP International Youth Festival, a local talent show, a traditional wrestling festival, and a fireworks festival.
Lee Jae-young, the county governor, said, “I hope that many people will come and enjoy the fall of Jeungpyeong as it adds to the charm of the Jeungpyeong Ginseng Festival and the changes to the smart city of Jeungpyeong.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
The 33rd Jeungpyeong Ginseng Bone Festival will be held successfully and the number of visitors will increase compared to the previous year.
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