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Masan Gagopa Chrysanthemums Festival

Masan is a perfect place to cultivate fresh and clear color Chrysanthemums thanks to gentle and fewer foggy climate and find soil quality, Because of such a good quality, it sold at one thousand won higher to Yangjae-dong flower joint market including and other flower markets nationwide and it boasts the best quality by developing cultivating method of Sapsu refrigeration.
Masan city is endeavoring to promote excellence of the Chrysanthemum to home and abroad and has been holding Chrysanthemum festivals from 2000 in order to promote consumption.
On last year, the city relocated the festival location to the ocean recreation park in Dotsom and promoted not only the Chrysanthemum but a comprehensive festival that could concurrently enjoy the green ocean and islands of Namhae which win heart of the citizens.

Masan Fish Market Festival

The Masan Fish Market Festival is growing its popularity and scale as time elapses and is now strongly positioned as a typical festival that lives up to its reputation.
The market begin its development from the Joseon dynasty and its tradition is handed down to even today demonstrating cheerful merchants as well as fishes and the market always provides something to enjoy first hand.
Visitors can enjoy fullest of joyful and live atmosphere at the Masan Fish Market Festival.

Man-nal-jae (A meeting festival)

Man-nal-jae is a festival that took an encountering and yearning folk theme which is a legend handed down from the Goryo dynasty to Masan based on a sad encountering legend between a mother and a daughter which depicts Koreans' general heartstrings.
The purpose of this highly elegant festival preserved with spirits of traditional art of Masan is to succeed our gradually vanishing traditional culture and educate young children about excellence of Masan culture.