This festival focuses on the Songi, or pine, mushroom grown naturally in the thick forests of Yangyang. The golden Songi mushroom is unusually soft with a chewy skin and a strong scent of its home pine forest. With prior reservation, visitors have the opportunity to get hands-on experience picking some of their own Songi mushrooms with an expert pine mushroom guide. As a visitor, you can also wander through the pine forest or run if you want in the half-marathon race that winds through the forest and along the Namdaecheon stream. Festival-goers are also offered a homestay program at the pine mushroom farms, a rare chance to experience something of this Korean rural lifestyle. Each year this festival takes place during late September and early October.

More information on the Yangyang Songi Mushroom Festival.

Written by  Allison Hansen.

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