Hongseong Hero Festival, which held in Hongseong and has changed as the name changed to Hongseong Naepo Love Big Festival, Hongseong Naepo Culture Festival, and Hongseong Hero Festival, has changed its appearance. During Hongseong Naepo Culture Festiv...
Hongseong Hero Festival, which held in Hongseong and has changed as the name changed to Hongseong Naepo Love Big Festival, Hongseong Naepo Culture Festival, and Hongseong Hero Festival, has changed its appearance. During Hongseong Naepo Culture Festival, it is a local people-centered festival for residents, and it was held as a department store-style festival without a clear theme and differentiated programs. However, as the need for a festival change emerged, through the consultation of experts and opinions from local people, the theme of the festival is changed from the theme of “Naepo” to “Historical figure”, the local people changed the name of festival in to “Hongseong Hero Festival”. All the programs of the festival consisted of 6 members of Hongseong’s historical figure(Mumin Choi Yeong, Maejukheon Seong Sam-mun, Manhae Han Yong-un, Baekya Kim Jwa-jin, Myungosoo Han Seong-jun, Goam Lee Eung-no), and we developed a historical figure as characters so that people can approach the heavy subject of history, Various experience programs and performance programs that can experience, see, and enjoy directly were conducted in order to give visitors an educational effect on historical figure and history. As the result of this, the festival has been qualitatively grown such as being selected as a cultural tourism festival in 2015. Still it has not overcome the limitation as a festival based on historical figure, so far. Therefore, this study aims to suggest a direction for the Hongseong Hero Festival from the perspective of the historical reenactment festival and to establish a strategy to develop into a representative historical reenactment festival in the future.
So through 26 questions targeting the local people, we grasped the importance of going to the shape of the historical reenactment festival and analyzed whether there was a difference in perception through the group analysis of marital status, age, occupation, and participation in the survey subjects. The analysis result are as follows.
The most important factor for the Hongseong Hero Festival to go to the historical reenactment festival is ‘The reflection of the times factor’, which creates the atmosphere of the festival hall reflecting the times, and I found that it is necessary to construct a festival program using historical events experienced by historical figures. In addition, ‘Promotion relation factor’ representing historical facts such as the production of promotion video and poster design reflecting times were also analyzed as important factors.
As a result of the independent sample t-test according to marital status, the average value of married people was higher than of unmarried people in all questions. It is a characteristic of the material of a historical figure needing to include educational content through a history test to raise awareness of history and it can be seen as reflecting the influence of married people who have a lot of interest in their children’s education, according to the importance of married people, a plan is needed to maximize the educational effect through the program.
On the other hand, the historical reenactment festival differed in the recognition of corporate sponsorship by those who participated in the festival operation and those who participated as simple visitors in terms of raising funds. Those who participated directly in the festival operation seem to think it is important to feel the need for corporate sponsorship. Currently, The Hongseong Hero Festival Promotion Committee which is jointly organized arbitrarily by the private sector and governments prepares for the Hongseong Hero Festival. However, Since the chairman of committee is the head of a local government, it is difficult to finance the festival such as corporate sponsorship and profitability
At the conclusion, it is considered that the Hongseong Hero Festival needs a foundation with expertise in situation that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism mentions the importance of the organization dedicated to festivals, and is adding a need for a separate organization to the festival evaluation system to promote the establishment of a cultural foundation nationwide.
In this study, The Hongseong Hero Festival has undergone changed in name and theme, achieving qualitative growth. Also, at the point where it was necessary to accurately set the direction to go to the shape of the historical reenactment festival with historical figure as the subjects, it figures out and analyzed the importance of the historical reenactment festival. But, in the future research, it is considered that various strategies to develop the Hongseong Hero Festival into a representative historical reenactment festival by grasping the importance of the historical reenactment festival from the perspective of foreign visitors who have experienced many other festivals.