Discover the Secrets of K-Ramen: GuMi’s Culinary Delights at Taiwan’s Rice Noodle Festival
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The city of Gumi — best known for its Gumi Ramen Festival that draws about 300,000 visitors a year — took K-ramen on the road to Taiwan to showcase the city’s culinary scene and build its brand abroad.
From April 25–26, Gumi dispatched three private chefs from the Gumi Ramen Festival to Taoyuan City, its international sister city, to appear at the Yongkang Rice Noodle Festival.
The delegation hosted tastings of “K-Kimchi Beef Ramen,” a playful twist on the festival’s signature Gumi Hanwoo Para Ramen, giving Taiwanese crowds a delicious intro to the charm of K-ramen.
They also promoted plans for the 2026 Gumi Ramen Festival and highlighted local attractions, aiming to boost the festival’s brand and broaden the city’s appeal to international visitors.
Taoyuan has taken part in the Gumi Ramen Festival for three consecutive years (2023–2025), bringing traditional Taiwanese noodle dishes and encouraging private-sector collaboration between the two cities’ food festivals.
The Yongkang Rice Noodle Festival is a multicultural food celebration shaped by the cuisines of immigrants from Yunnan, Myanmar and Thailand, as well as military and police communities. Built around rice noodles and hands-on experiences, it drew roughly 150,000 visitors last year.
Gumi teamed up with Nongshim’s Gumi plant — South Korea’s largest ramen production hub — to create an industrial-tourism route where visitors can taste freshly fried ramen. That strategy helped elevate the Gumi Ramen Festival into one of Korea’s must-attend food events. Gumi’s population is just over 400,000, yet last year the festival attracted about 350,000 visitors, including roughly 10,000 from overseas.
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