3rd Gumi Ramen Festival - 2024
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Usually held around early November.
Based on 4 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- November 01 - November 03, 2024
- Price
- free entry
Programme
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Also on the programme
구미역 앞 라면거리
Three days from the 1st (month not stated). 'World's longest ramen restaurant' concept with a 475 m ramen street in front of Gumi Station. Nongshim pop-up store with photo zone and unmanned robot food truck; exhibition of Nongshim ramen packaging through the eras; booth selling ramen made the same day at the Gumi plant. Local merchants serve 15 special dishes made with Nongshim ramen at the 'Ramen Restaurant', such as 육전신라면 (Shin Ramyun with beef jeon) and 야채곱창라면 (vegetable and gopchang ramen).
About This Event
The 2024 Gumi Ramen Festival runs for three days from 1 November 2024 in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, with the concept 'the world's longest ramen restaurant': a 475 m ramen street in front of Gumi Station plus venues around the city centre. Nongshim, whose Gumi plant is Korea's largest ramen factory, takes part with a pop-up store and exhibition.
History
Started in 2022; 2024 is its third year. Planned because Gumi hosts Nongshim's Gumi plant, Korea's largest ramen factory, producing over 75% of Shin Ramyun sold nationwide. About 100,000 visitors came last year (36% from outside Gumi; local spending rose 17% versus the weeks around it); 120,000 are expected in 2024. The plant was founded in 1990.
On the menu
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육전신라면
By 구미시 지역상인들
Yukjeon Shin Ramyun (ramen special menu made with Nongshim ramen)
Vegetable gopchang ramen (special menu made with Nongshim ramen)
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라면 특별메뉴 15가지
By 구미시 지역상인들
15 special menus made with Nongshim ramen at the 'ramen restaurant' venue
Who's who
Organised by
- 구미시 (기획), 농심 (참여) Nongshim: announced the festival; runs a pop-up store, history exhibition and a booth selling ramen made that day at the Gumi plant; Gumi City: planned the festival
- Gumi City (구미시), with Nongshim's Gumi plant as the main corporate partner
Taking part
- 구미시 지역상인들 Local merchants of Gumi serving 15 special menus
Good to know
- Festival sites are spread across Gumi city centre, including a 475 m ramen street in front of Gumi Station.
- Concept: 'the world's longest ramen restaurant', a 475 m ramen street in front of Gumi Station, with the city centre used as festival grounds.
- Nongshim pop-up store themed 'Korea's representative ramen company' with photo zone and an unmanned robot food truck.
- Exhibition of Nongshim ramen packages through the ages showing ramen history.
- A booth sells ramen produced that day at the Gumi plant.
- Attendance
- about 171,000
Everything the announcement says
Every detail, as the festival announced it.
Nongshim announced on the 28th that it will hold the '2024 Gumi Ramen Festival' in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, for three days from the 1st (November).
The festival was planned as a flagship local festival because Gumi hosts Nongshim's Gumi plant, Korea's largest ramen factory. It began in 2022 and this is its third year. The Gumi plant produces over 75% of the Shin Ramyun sold nationwide.
A Nongshim official said the festival is significant as an exemplary local government-company cooperation that created a new cultural event in which the whole nation takes part.
Gumi City's analysis says about 100,000 visitors enjoyed the contents last year; 36% of all visitors came from outside Gumi, and spending in Gumi during the festival rose 17% against the week before and after. Gumi expects 120,000 visitors this year.
This year's concept is 'the world's longest ramen restaurant': a 475 m ramen street in front of Gumi Station, with sites across the city centre.
Nongshim runs a pop-up store themed 'Korea's representative ramen company' with photo zone and unmanned robot food truck; an exhibition of Nongshim ramen packages by era showing ramen history; and a unique booth selling ramen produced that day at the Gumi plant.
Local Gumi merchants present 15 special menus made with Nongshim ramen at the 'ramen restaurant' venue, such as Yukjeon Shin Ramyun and Vegetable Gopchang Ramyun.
Nongshim will keep supporting local collaboration (Wando kelp purchases, support for young farmers and beekeepers). The Gumi plant has operated since 1990 (35 years), producing about 800 billion won of products yearly (2023) and about 450 billion won of regional economic effect.
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Location
Gumi Station, 구미시 선주원남동, Gumi, South Korea
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