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The Jagalchi Festival, Busan can be related to the words “Oiso(Come), Boiso(See), Saiso(Enjoy)”. It is the seafood festival balancing the cooking contest of the foreigner’s and the relay race of sea eel added with different kinds of fun and entertainment. Every year Jagalchi Festival, Busan is organized at the Jagalchi Seafood Market area during the month of October. The Jagalchi Culture and Tourism Festival Organizing Committee arranges for the Jagalchi Festival, Busan. Through this festival the visitors comes to know how flamboyant the festival is and also about the mundane life of the citizens of Busan. It is so because during the Jagalchi Festival, Busan the visitors gets an opportunity to come across the scene of fresh and plentiful of marine products, low-priced and assorted goods. Other than this there are varieties of other things that one will come across that bridge the traditional with the modern. The opening ceremonies of the Jagalchi Festival, Busan includes a parade of the workers dressed as fish and other marine animals. The visitors coming to Busan gets to see different kinds of event such as boat launch ceremony, fish dance exhibition, and fireworks. Visitors also take part in several contests as the eel relay race, foreigners’ cooking contest, and Jagalchi ajuma pageant. The married women who work in the Jgalchi Fish Market are called as the Ajumas. The Ajumas are a very tough breed to deal with. The strong ness of their exterior self often hides the soft and kind interiors of the Ajumas. The Ajumas work very hard for doing the dirty work of cleaning the seafood but then they are wholly devoted to their families. The Ajumas can truly be accredited for shaping the area of Jagalchi into its present form. Also you can of course get to eat fresh seafood and drink soju(grain alcohol) during the Jagalchi Festival, Busan.
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