the Paleolithic Festival > Outline of the Festival
May 4(Wed) ~ May 8(Sun) 2011(for five days)
Prehistoric sites in Jeongok-ri
Yeoncheon County, Gyeonggi-do
Yeoncheon Jeongok-ri Paleolithic Festival Committee
Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism, Ministry of Public Administration and Security, Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Gyeonggi-do, Korea National Tourism Organization, Gyeonggi Tourism Corporation, Kyunghee University, Hanyang University
- An experience-oriented and educational event aimed at satisfying archeological interests of the general public and providing chances to learn the history of humankind(One of two leading Old Stone Age related festival along with the one in France)
- An Edutainment-type festival, held under the main theme of Paleolithic culture, where visitors can play and learn through large-sized exhibitions and Old Stone Age Experience School
- A family festival where family members can enjoy various side events all together such as cultural exhibitions, special performance and amusement events in the family month, especially on the Children's Day
- To deliver lively ambience of the scene of the Festival by inspiring vitality to the "Acheulean handaxe" quintessence of the Paleolithic culture
- To generate shared feeling along with spectators on Paleolithic culture by expressing the sense of assimilation with humankind in the Old Stone Age as the 'sound of breathing'
