4th Gumi Ramen Festival - 2025
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Usually held around early November.
Based on 4 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- November 07 - November 09, 2025
- Price
- free entry
Programme
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Until Sunday, November 09, 2025
구미역 일원
'Ramen Street 475' (the 475 m 'world's longest ramen restaurant'): 'K-pop Demon Hunters' noodle-slurping contest (케데헌 면치기 대회), 'Golden Challenge', 'Saja Boys random play dance', ramen sculptures and photo zones. 'God Land': freshly fried ramen sales, including the Shin Ramyun K-pop Demon Hunters edition. 'Ramen Restaurant': 25 special ramen dishes cooked on site with freshly fried ramen, with QR ordering. 'Huruk Lounge' eating area with six themed zones. Behind Gumi Station: 'Cup Ramen Rest Stop', 'Bubbling Playground' and 'Ramen Imagination Workshop' for children. Opening of the 'GUMI RAMYUN STATION 475' promotion hall on the first day (ramen MBTI, ramen prize draw, photo booths).
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Opening day: GUMI RAMYUN STATION 475 promotion hall opens on the 1st floor of Gumi Station (Gumi Young Square)
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Participatory programmes at 'Ramen Street 475': K-pop Demon Hunters-themed noodle-slurping contest, Golden Challenge, Saja Boys random play dance
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2025-11-09
Kids Festival with Teenieping at the Geumosan lawn plaza (singalong concert, experience booths, photo zones)
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About This Event
The 2025 Gumi Ramen Festival, held 7-9 November 2025 around Gumi Station, South Korea, was its 4th edition, themed 'Original', and drew about 350,000 visitors according to Gumi City. Centred on a 475 m 'world's longest ramen restaurant', it turned downtown Gumi into a ramen street.
History
4th edition. About 350,000 visitors in 2025. About 20 reporters from major foreign media covered the festival; foreign students and visitors came. The kids festival drew 15,000 family visitors over two days.
On the menu
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갓 튀긴 라면
Also served
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갓 튀긴 라면 (freshly fried ramen)
By Godland, the signature space
480,000 packs of freshly fried ramen sold (about 360 million won) including 120,000 Shin Ramyun K-Pop Demon Hunters Edition; queue over 1 km
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25가지 이색라면 요리
By 라면레스토랑 (ramen restaurant)
25 unusual ramen dishes cooked on site with freshly fried ramen; about 54,000 bowls sold over 3 days, 600 million won in sales
Who's who
Organised by
- 구미시 Gumi City: organiser; Mayor of Gumi
- Gumi City (구미시), with Nongshim's Gumi plant as the main corporate partner
Taking part
- 파브리 (Fabri) Italian chef who visited
- 챔보 (Chambo) Popular Australian YouTuber who visited
Good to know
- A QR ordering system was used at the festival to reduce waiting times.
- The 'Huruk Lounge' eating area had six themed zones: Family Zone, Relax Zone, Old Town Zone, Alley Night-Market Zone, Nature Park Zone and a Viewing Lounge.
- Children's activities ('Cup Ramen Rest Stop', 'Bubbling Playground', 'Ramen Imagination Workshop') were set up on the plaza behind Gumi Station.
- The 'GUMI RAMYUN STATION 475' promotion hall at Gumi Young Square (ground floor of Gumi Station) stays open until the end of the year.
- Theme 'Original'; main space 'Ramen Street 475' with the 475 m 'world's longest ramen restaurant'.
- New QR ordering system reduced waiting time; long tables and cross-shaped dining zones.
- Main dining zone 'Hurrurk Lounge' with 6 themes: family zone, relax zone, old town zone, alley zone, nature park zone, viewing lounge.
- Behind Gumi Station: 'Cup Ramen Rest Stop', 'Bogle Bogle Playground', 'Ramen Imagination Workshop' for children.
- Ramen promotion hall GUMI RAMYUN STATION 475 (Gumi Young Square, 1F) with ramen MBTI, ramen draw and photo booths; open until year-end with live music and silent DJ parties on certain days.
- Related events: Gumi Ilseon Jeongpum fair and international dance festival.
- Attendance
- about 350,000
Everything the announcement says
Every detail, as the festival announced it.
Gumi City announced that the '2025 Gumi Ramen Festival', held 7-9 November (three days) around Gumi Station, ended successfully with about 350,000 visitors. In its 4th year, the theme was 'Original'. Downtown Gumi became a ramen street around the 475 m 'world's longest ramen restaurant'.
Gumi Station's Daegyeong line became a 'jackpot line', with Gumi Station plaza and Munhwa-ro crowded daily; visitors said 'it felt like Gangnam Station'.
At the main space 'Ramen Street 475', participatory programmes themed on 'K-Pop Demon Hunters' (noodle-slurping contest, Golden Challenge, Saja Boys random play dance) drew a strong response from young people.
In the signature space 'Godland', 480,000 freshly fried ramen packs (about 360 million won) were sold including 120,000 Shin Ramyun K-Pop Demon Hunters Edition; the queue exceeded 1 km.
At the 'ramen restaurant', 25 unusual ramen dishes made with freshly fried ramen sold about 54,000 bowls in 3 days, 600 million won in sales.
New QR ordering reduced waiting time; long tables and cross-shaped eating zones. Main eating zone 'Hurrurk Lounge' has 6 themes (family, relax, old town, alley, nature park, viewing lounge).
Behind Gumi Station: 'Cup Ramen Rest Stop', 'Bogle Bogle Playground' and 'Ramen Imagination Workshop' for children.
Visitors included Italian chef Fabri, popular Australian YouTuber Chambo, foreign students and overseas visitors; about 20 reporters from major foreign media covered it.
Related: 'Kids Festival with Teenieping' at the Geumosan lawn plaza (8-9 Nov) with 15,000 family visitors, singalong concert, experience booths and photo zones; also Gumi Ilseon Jeongpum fair and international dance festival.
On day one the 'GUMI RAMYUN STATION 475' promotion hall opened on the 1st floor of Gumi Young Square at Gumi Station, with ramen MBTI, ramen draw and four-cut photos; it runs permanently until year-end, with live music and silent DJ parties on certain days.
Mayor Kim Jang-ho: the festival established a model of urban festival where citizens enjoy and the commercial district revives; he aims to grow it into a global K-food festival.
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Location
Gumi Station, 구미시 선주원남동, Gumi, South Korea
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