{"id":372,"date":"2026-04-10T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/cul260403002-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:05:55","slug":"cul260403002-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/cul260403002-en\/","title":{"rendered":"New Vitality for Jinhae Gunhangje! Youth-Planned &#8216;Semoro Festa&#8217; Receives Enthusiastic Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article type-b\">\n<div class=\"original-title\" style=\"font-size:1.4em;font-weight:bold;margin-bottom:10px;color:#333;line-height:1.4\">Ppeonhan Changwon X Develop Fun Host &#8216;2026 Semoro Festa in Jinhae Gunhangje&#8217;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-main-image\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image\" src=\"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/cul260403002_01.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0\">Amidst the ongoing 64th Jinhae Gunhangje this year, &#8216;Semoro Festa,&#8217; a local content brand based in Changwon, is offering visitors a new festival experience as an official program of the Gunhangje. This &#8216;2026 Semoro Festa in Jinhae Gunhangje&#8217; was jointly planned by culture planning company Ppeonhan Changwon and local branding company Develop Fun. Both companies operate the festival under the name of Semoro Cooperative.<\/p>\n<h2>An Atmospheric Food Space with a &#8216;Sea Pocha&#8217; Concept<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;2026 Semoro Festa in Jinhae Gunhangje&#8217; was set up along approximately 100 meters of the beachfront path near Sokcheon Port. This festival presented an atmospheric food space with a &#8216;sea pocha&#8217; concept, set against a backdrop of cherry blossoms and the night sea.<\/p>\n<p>Ten popular restaurants from the Masan, Changwon, and Jinhae regions are participating, offering a variety of menus. This has received significant acclaim as a stay-type content that encourages tourists to linger.<\/p>\n<h2>Experiential Programs Featuring Local Flavors and Sentiment<\/h2>\n<p>&#8216;2026 Semoro Festa in Jinhae Gunhangje&#8217; has gone beyond merely introducing restaurants. It was planned as an experiential program where visitors can enjoy local flavors and sentiments together at a night pocha street that unfolds beneath cherry blossom trees.<\/p>\n<p>Especially at night, the cherry blossom nightscape harmonizes with the port lights, offering a different charm compared to daytime. This contributes to increasing visitor satisfaction.<\/p>\n<h2>Enthusiastic Visitor Response and Positive Reviews<\/h2>\n<p>From the early stages of the festival, a large number of visitors flocked to the event, making it difficult to find empty seats in the evenings. This phenomenon led to positive evaluations, indicating that new stay-type content had been added to the Gunhangje.<\/p>\n<p>On-site, enthusiastic comments such as &#8216;You must visit here if you come to Gunhangje&#8217; were reportedly heard frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Yoon In-cheol, CEO of Ppeonhan Changwon, stated, &#8216;We planned a highly satisfying festival where Changwon&#8217;s diverse food and nature harmonize.&#8217; He added, &#8216;Semoro Festa will continue to develop, revitalizing local businesses and establishing itself as a unique festival not previously seen in the region.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"variant-nav\" style=\"margin:28px 0 0 0;text-align:right;line-height:1.2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en-ko\/cul260403002-enkr\" style=\"padding:8px 14px;border:1px solid #7c3aed;border-radius:10px;background:#ffffff;color:#6d28d9;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.2;text-decoration:none\">English-Korean version<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ppeonhan Changwon X Develop Fun Host &#8216;2026 Semoro Festa in Jinhae Gunhangje&#8217; Amidst the ongoing 64th Jinhae Gunhangje this year,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[447,62,445,448,446],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-changwon","tag-culture","tag-jinhae-gunhangje","tag-local-festival","tag-semoro-festa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kstories.kr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}