by Violet Kim
For most of the world, accustomed to celebrating things like really good music or ground-breaking films, Korea's packed calendar of obscure festivals -- comemorating everything from ginseng to the prehistoic standing stones known as dolmen -- may seem a bit excessive.
Trying to make dolmen interesting with a festival is like attempting to put makeup on a corpse: inappropriate and ineffective, and usually the domain of the most desperate.
It can be difficult to decide which ones are worthy of our time, and sometimes the buzz of the banal keeps us distracted. A quick portal search yields 2,364 festivals for the year 2012.
But listed below are four that are set to score, handpicked by a committee that exists to attract visitors to Korea, and two more, because autumn in Korea is too pretty to spend tucked away in a hotel.
1. Busan World Fireworks Festival
Forget Big Bang. These bangs are bigger. Busan is already a pretty happening port city, and not one that you really need an excuse to visit. Still, you might as well go during the Busan World Fireworks Festival to see the sky above the Gwangan Bridge illuminated with myriad asterisks.
Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/asb3aksexWg/6-reasons-visit-korea-fall-914041
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