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Damyang Bamboo Festival in Damyang
A May festival at Juknokwon, a forty-acre bamboo forest in Damyang, built around a Goryeo-era bamboo-planting tradition called the Day of Jukchwi. Visitors make and fly bamboo kites, fire bamboo water guns, and paddle bamboo rafts through shaded forest paths, making it one of Korea's calmer, nature-focused spring festivals rather than a stage-driven event.
Juknokwon's dense bamboo groves, a roughly forty-acre forest planted to showcase Damyang's centuries-old bamboo economy, host a spring festival that traces its own roots back to a Goryeo-era planting custom known as the Day of Jukchwi.