A colorful autumn night...Jinju Namgang Yudeung Festival

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The Jinju Namgang Yudeung Festival, which colors autumn nights in October with an oil lantern, will be held from the weekend.

Colorful lanterns are waiting for visitors.

Reporter Lim Hyung-joon went to the festival in advance.

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There are various large oil lamps floating on the Namgang River in Jinju.

Yudeungs, who will color autumn nights with light, are ready to welcome guests.

There are various types, from the mascot and popular character of Jinju City to Yudeung, which hopes to leap into the aerospace industry city.

Regular visitors to the festival every year are also looking forward to this year's festival.

[Seo Ji-Soo / Gajwa-dong, Jinju-si, Gyeongsangnam-do: I have been participating in festivals every year except for my military service period since 2009. I'm especially looking forward to this year's festival because it's my first time participating with my son.]

This year's festival venue is more expanded than before.

Jinju Battle History Park, which was completed in 17 years, is the main character.

300 large and small oil lamps created a historical scene of the Battle of Jinju.

In addition, the Namgang River was filled with about a thousand oil lanterns, and the Jinju Castle was filled with about 10,000 lanterns.

Jinju City expects about 1.26 million visitors last year and more than 1.3 million this year.

[Cho Kyu-il / Jinju Mayor: This year, it is meaningful that the festival has been expanded to Jinju Battle Historical Park. I hope you can visit Jinju comfortably and happily.Jinju's representative festival held under the theme of

to contain the peace of the river of history'.

The Jinju Namgang Yudeung Festival, which will paint Jinju's autumn night with a lantern, will continue until the 20th.

I'm YTN's Lim Hyungjun.