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Busan Metropolitan City to Host the 8th Busan Urban Agriculture Festival

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Busan Metropolitan City, led by Mayor Chun Jae-soo, will host the 8th Busan Urban Agriculture Festival at Song Sanghyeon Square in Busanjin-gu from October 2 to 3.

Under the theme “Busan: Meet Farmers in the City,” the festival is jointly hosted by Busan Metropolitan City and Busanjin-gu and organized by the Busan Urban Agriculture Association.

Centered on urban agriculture, the festival will offer a festive occasion for urban farmers and residents to enjoy together. More than 40 organizations and groups will participate, including urban agriculture organizations, related universities, the Bugyeong Horticultural Agricultural Cooperative, and Mirae Flower Farming Association Corporation, providing a wide variety of attractions and activities.

Visitors will also be able to enjoy the atmosphere of autumn through traditional activities such as rice threshing, rice-cake pounding, carrying a traditional A-frame carrier, and playing tuho, as well as exhibitions featuring various rice varieties and new agricultural products, including pumpkins and eggplants.

The festival will consist of five main sections: an opening ceremony, a hands-on activity zone, an autumn-themed zone, a sharing zone, and an exhibition zone.

The opening ceremony will begin with a pre-event K-pop performance, followed by award ceremonies for the “2026 Citizen Garden Champion” and the “Outstanding Urban Agriculture Experience Essay.” The hands-on activity zone will offer a variety of programs run by urban agriculture communities, including making potted air-purifying plants, shrink-plastic urban farmer characters, and moss balls.

The autumn-themed zone will provide opportunities to experience the rural atmosphere of autumn through rice threshing and milling activities, along with displays of autumn chrysanthemums and opportunities to enjoy chrysanthemum and marigold flower teas. A sharing marketplace and an exhibition zone will also offer visitors a variety of things to see and enjoy.

To promote a broader culture of urban agriculture, Busan Metropolitan City enacted the Ordinance on the Promotion and Support of Urban Agriculture in 2012. As of 2026, the city has established 3.88 million square meters of urban gardens, equivalent to 2.4 square meters per household, and fostered 296,000 urban farming households, accounting for 18.8 percent of all households in the city.

The city is also pursuing a wide range of projects, including distributing container gardens for use at home, developing smart farms, providing repotting services for companion plants, operating training programs for urban agriculture specialists, running garden schools for children, and distributing seedlings.

Kim Ki-hwan, Assistant Mayor of Economic Policy Office, said, “We hold this festival every year to restore a sense of community and encourage residents to participate in urban agriculture by providing opportunities to see and experience a wide range of urban agriculture practices, thereby fostering a healthy civic culture.”

He added, “We will continue to pursue diverse and meaningful urban agriculture initiatives to expand the social, environmental, and ecological value of urban agriculture and build greater momentum for incorporating urban agriculture into everyday life.”