5th Gumi Ramen Festival - 2026
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Usually held around early November.
Based on 4 past editions
Event Details
- Date & Time
- November 06 - November 08, 2026 · 10:00~21:00
- Price
- free entry
Programme
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Until Sunday, November 08, 2026 · 10:00~21:00
구미시 역전로
경상북도 구미시 역전로
Held across Gumi Station, Yeokjeon-ro, Munhwa-ro, Geumnidan-gil and Saemaeul Central Market. Programmes: Ramyeon Restaurant (ramyeon dishes from across the country), Freshly Fried Ramyeon (갓튀긴라면), God Land (갓랜드), Global Ramyeon Challenge, Robot Chef, Slurp Lounge (후루룩 라운지); participation of local restaurants and businesses.
Until Sunday, November 08, 2026
구미역 일원
Ramyeon restaurant on the downtown street in front of Gumi Station; Nongshim's freshly fried ramyeon; launch and sale of the limited-edition Gumi Ramyeon Festival Noodles made with 100% Gumi-grown wheat at God Land (갓랜드) from 6 November.
Global Ramyeon Challenge (competition for foreign participants), introduced this year; invited overseas K-food influencers and global chefs (Nongshim Gumi factory tour and freshly fried ramyeon tasting); creative ramyeon using local specialties and ramyeon with original recipes and stories.
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Ramen Restaurant: ramen dishes from across the country
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Freshly fried ramen
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Godland
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Global Ramen Challenge
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Robot Chef
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Hurrurk Lounge
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About This Event
The 2026 Gumi Ramen Festival (구미라면 축제) runs 6-8 November 2026, 10:00-21:00, in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, at Yeokjeon-ro. Free admission. It is Gumi's flagship regional festival linking industry, food culture and local tourism around ramen, since Gumi hosts Nongshim's Gumi plant. It is held across the old town (Gumi Station, Yeokjeon-ro, Munhwa-ro, Geumri-dangil, Saemaeul Jungang Market). Organised by Gumi City.
The cause
Local win-win: farmers gain a new sales channel for local produce, the company strengthens cooperation with the community, and the city turns it into a tourism product.
History
5th edition. Visitors: about 10,000 at the first festival in 2022, about 100,000 in 2023, 170,000 in 2024, and a record 350,000 last year (40.2% from outside Gumi). Last year the ramen restaurant sold 54,000 bowls (about 600 million won) and 480,000 packs of Nongshim's freshly fried ramen. The festival was selected Gyeongbuk's best festival this year and listed as a 2026-2027 Culture and Tourism Festival candidate festival by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Gumi held Korea's first ramen festival in 2022, inspired by the Nongshim factory in Gumi Industrial Complex 1 producing 75% of Shin Ramyun. Visitors: about 10,000 in the first year, 100,000 the next, 170,000 in 2024, and about 350,000 in 2025 (40.2% from outside Gumi), the largest single festival in Gumi. In 2025 the 475 m stretch in front of Gumi Station was styled 'the world's longest ramen restaurant'; 25 ramen restaurants cooked with that day's Nongshim products; there was a 'Gumi Ramen Workshop' to make your own ramen, freshly fried ramen from the Nongshim Gumi plant, a Nongshim booth in a KPop Demon Hunters theme, a 'Hurrukk Lounge' eating area, contests ('Global Ramen Cooking King', 'Ramlier selection', 'KPop Demon Hunters noodle-slurping contest'), QR-code ordering, bagged-ramen packages of about 20,000 won. Over the three days 480,000 packs of ramen (incl. 120,000 KPop Demon Hunters edition) were sold (about 360 million won) and about 54,000 bowls of ramen dishes (e.g. Gumi hanwoo pabulgogi kimchi ramen, red crab ramen, whole squid seafood ramen) for about 600 million won; total spending about 2.86 billion won; 76,000 people used Gumi Station.
On the menu
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구미라면축제면
By 농심 구미공장
Limited edition festival noodle: 200,000 packs, 100% Gumi wheat flour; spicy beef broth base with shiitake mushroom, carrot and bok choy; sold from day one at Godland
Freshly fried ramen, the festival's core product, produced at Nongshim's Gumi plant
Who's who
Organised by
- 구미시 Gumi City: host and organiser; Gumi City, announced the limited ramen on 3 November; Mayor of Gumi
- Gumi City (구미시), with Nongshim's Gumi plant as the main corporate partner
Supported by
- 농심 (Nongshim) Ramen maker whose Gumi factory produces about 75% of Shin Ramyun; supplies the fresh-fried ramen and products
Taking part
- 지역 음식점과 상권 Local restaurants and commercial districts take part; Produces the limited-edition noodle; Local farmers who grew the wheat
Also involved
- 농심 Korea's representative ramen company, whose Gumi plant is located in the city
- 오뚜기라면 (Ottogi Ramen) Signed an investment MOU with Gumi and Gyeongbuk on 13 July 2026; maker of Jin Ramen
- 김장호 (Kim Jang-ho) Mayor of Gumi
Contacts
- 054-480-2651~3 Gumi City (inquiries)
Good to know
- Admission: free (무료).
- Hosted and organised by Gumi City; enquiries: Gumi City, tel. 054-480-2651~3.
- The festival may change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
- The whole downtown is used as the festival space: Gumi Station, Yeokjeon-ro, Munhwa-ro, Geumri-dangil and Saemaeul Jungang Market.
- Limited-edition 'Gumi Ramyeon Festival Noodles' (200,000 packs) on sale at God Land (갓랜드) from 6 November.
- The festival noodle is sold at 'Godland' on the festival grounds from day one, 6 November.
- A 'Global Ramen Challenge' for foreign contestants is introduced from this year's festival (2026).
- Overseas K-food influencers and global chefs are to be invited for a tour of the Nongshim Gumi factory and a fresh-fried ramen experience.
- Creative ramen using local specialities, regional foods, culture and tourism resources, and original recipes with a story are to be presented.
- Gumi plans to build a permanent ramen experience hall by 2027.
Everything the announcement says
Every detail, as the festival announced it.
Gumi Ramen Festival. Region: Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Period: 2026.11.6 ~ 11.8, 10:00~21:00. Festival type: other. Related website: https://www.gumiramyun.com/. Venue: Yeokjeon-ro, Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Fee: free. Host/organiser: Gumi City. Inquiries: Gumi City, administrator, 054-480-2651~3.
The Gumi Ramen Festival is a flagship regional festival linking Gumi's industry, food culture and local tourism around ramen. Gumi is home to the Gumi plant of Nongshim, Korea's representative ramen company, and is developing ramen into local tourism content on that industrial base. The festival is held across the old town including Gumi Station, Yeokjeon-ro, Munhwa-ro, Geumri-dangil and Saemaeul Jungang Market, using the whole downtown as festival space.
Main programmes: Ramen Restaurant, freshly fried ramen, Godland, Global Ramen Challenge, Robot Chef, Hurrurk Lounge. The ramen restaurant presents ramen dishes from across the country, and visitors can taste freshly fried ramen. Local restaurants and commercial districts take part, connecting the festival site to the old town and promoting the local economy. The 2026 festival links industry, tourism, food culture and commerce through ramen as Gumi's own urban tourism festival.
This festival may change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
At the '2026 Gumi Ramen Festival', held 6-8 November around Gumi Station, Gumi City announced on the 3rd it will present 200,000 packs of the limited-edition 'Gumi Ramen Festival Noodle', made with 100% Gumi wheat flour. Production is by Nongshim's Gumi plant, using wheat grown by local farms.
The noodle has a spicy beef broth base differentiated with shiitake mushroom, carrot and bok choy; sold from day one (6th) at 'Godland' on the festival grounds.
The festival is in its 5th year. Visitors grew from about 10,000 in 2022 to about 100,000 in 2023, 170,000 in 2024 and a record 350,000 last year; 40.2% of last year's visitors were from outside Gumi.
Last year the ramen restaurant sold 54,000 bowls (about 600 million won) and 480,000 packs of Nongshim freshly fried ramen were sold.
The festival was selected Gyeongbuk's best festival this year and named among the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's '2026~2027 Culture and Tourism Festival' candidate festivals.
Mayor Kim Jang-ho: the festival-only ramen made with 100% Gumi wheat is a meaningful attempt; he will link industry, agriculture and tourism resources to develop Gumi into a world-class K-ramen tourism city.
2026 Gumi Ramen Festival: 6-8 November 2026 (11.6~8). Expectation of tasting Jin Ramen as well as Shin Ramyun and of passing 400,000 visitors. On 13 July 2026 Gyeongbuk Province and Gumi City signed an investment MOU with Ottogi Ramen at Gumi City Hall (Vice Governor Yang Geum-hee, Mayor Kim Jang-ho, Ottogi CEO Lee Shin-hyuk and about 10 others attended); Ottogi will invest 200 billion won in Gumi National Industrial Complex 2 for an export factory, to be built by 2029, creating about 120 jobs. Mayor Kim: Gumi is the original city of ramen festivals. The festival is credited with helping attract the plant. Gumi created a 'Romance Festival Division' in 2013. Ramen festival started 2022, nationwide first. From this year's festival, a 'Global Ramen Challenge' for foreign contestants, invitation of overseas K-food influencers and global chefs for Nongshim Gumi factory tour and fresh-fried ramen experience; creative ramen with local specialities, regional food, culture and tourism, original recipes with stories. By 2027 a permanent ramen experience hall. See history for past editions.
10:00-21:00 per the Ministry of Culture page; 33 ramen restaurants; Global Ramen Challenge finals 7 Nov.
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Location
Gumi Station, 구미시 선주원남동, Gumi, South Korea
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- Free
- 무료