Yulgok Cultural Festival, the total culture and art festival of Paju, the hometown of literature, is a civil festival to worship the posthumous influence of Yulgok Lee Ee(李珥), the great master of the Korean race, and for the harmony of the 250,000 Paju citizens, which is held every fall at Jawun lecture hall where Yulgok Lee’s monetary tablet is placed and at the Paju Citizen’s Hall. Yulgok Cultural Festival is a festival to share and enjoy the historical and spacious oneness through ‘being in harmony’ by learning wisdom to live today through ‘remembering’ the life of ancestors such as master Yulgok, the pride of Paju, by inspiring pride as citizen of Paju, and through culture and art. The main programs are divided into memorial events to admire the spirit of master Yulgok and celebratory events. The remembrance events include the Jawun lecture hall sacrificial ritual, the Yulgok philosophy scholarship symposium, the revival of the Confucian march, a quiz competition for the first place in the higher civil service examination, and exploration of the Paju 3 Hyeons etc. Also, there are literary events such as the National Chinese Poetry Composition contest, the Yulgok composition contest, a painting and drawing contest, and the Yulgok calligraphy contest. The celebratory events and exhibitions include events such as the Gilnori, regular concert of Geumsanri folk song preservation society, the Hanmaeum music concert, the Imjin River song festival and folk artists invitation exhibition etc., will be held, and various kinds of experience programs will progress as incidental events. ◆ Period : the end of September every year (4 days) ◆ Place : Jawun lecture hall, citizen’s hall etc. ◆ Tel. : Paju cultural center ☎ +82-031-941-2425 ◆ Homepage : http://www.pajucc.or.kr