Busan Pork Soup Rice Grand Festival

About the festival

The 2026 Busan Pork Soup Rice Festival is a participatory gourmet-tourism festival that citizens and tourists create together around pork soup rice (dwaeji-gukbap), Busan's signature local food. Citizens and tourists recommend pork soup rice restaurants in Busan, then visit them in person, taste, and vote to choose this year's representative Busan pork soup rice. Diverse programs include the "Gukbap Talks," where people share stories about gukbap, the "Gukbap Week," which sends visitors to gukbap restaurants across Busan, and the "Gukbap Showcase," where pork soup rice can be tasted and enjoyed in one place. Following the flavor of Busan and the stories of its neighborhoods held in a single bowl of pork soup rice, visitors can travel around the city and experience Busan's food culture anew.