National Sports Festival to open in Jeju on the 16th... Oh Sang-uk and Kim Woo-jin to compete; all events free to attend

[Financial News] The 107th National Sports Festival opens in Jeju on the 16th. National team athletes who excelled at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games will compete, and all events will be free to attend.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on the 16th, this year’s National Sports Festival will be held across Jeju over seven days, through the 22nd. Around 30,000 people will take part, including 20,000 athletes and 10,000 officials.
Events will be held at 74 venues, including Gang Chang-hak Sports Complex. A total of 50 sports will be contested: 49 official sports and jujitsu as a demonstration sport. Athletes will compete in divisions including under-18, university, and general. Athletes from overseas Korean communities will also take part.
National team athletes including Oh Sang-uk (fencing) and Kim Woo-jin (archery), who competed at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held from the 19th of last month through the 4th of this month, will take part in the festival. Lee Hyun-ji, an Asian Games silver medalist in judo, will be the final torchbearer at the opening ceremony.
The opening ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. today at Jeju World Cup Stadium. MCST Minister Choi Hwi-young will attend and declare the festival open, and KBS 1TV will broadcast it live. The closing ceremony will be held at the same venue on the 22nd.
The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee is hosting the festival, which is jointly organized by Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education, and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Sports Council. MCST is sponsoring the event.
Visitors should also check for traffic restrictions around the venues. Under the traffic controls for the triathlon announced on the Jeju Bus Information System, bus routes including 101 and 201 will be temporarily rerouted on sections of Gimnyeong-ro in Gujwa-eup on the 17th from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and on the 18th from 8 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.
Schedules and venues for each sport are available on the official National Sports Festival website.

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