More than one million South Korean and international visitors attend the festival each year.
"We're looking to establish the festival each year from now on and we wanted to broaden its horizons by offering the other stage, " said Arena Stage organiser Marc Ball from Envy Productions.
For the annual cherry blossom festival, one community presents its float each year, but for the Great Festival at Kamine Shrine, the four communities compete to see whose puppeteers are the most skilled and which can provide the best hospitality to the local deity.
Up to 35, 000 revellers attended the festival on each day last year, when the likes of Travis, REM, Roxy Music, Razorlight and Faithless were on the bill.
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While still small in comparison to marquee film festivals like the Toronto International Film Festival, which draws about 400, 000 attendees each year, attendance at the New Orleans festival has more than doubled to 17, 000 in the past three years.
Each year, the week long festival presents numerous events that include tastings, seminars, dinners, and new product launches.
Now in its seventh year, the Misteria Paschalia Festival runs each Easter, bringing a starry line-up of Baroque performers to the second largest city in Poland.
Sir Kenneth Branagh and Mercury Prize-winning band The xx will be among the highlights of next year's Manchester International Festival, each promising intimate shows in unusual venues.
Several towns in the county, including Llanelli and Llandeilo, wanted to hold the youth festival, which attracts up to 100, 000 visitors each year.
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Each year, the Peruvian province of Chumbivilcas hosts the vibrant Christmastime festival of Takanakuy.
Sacra Profanum, run by Filip Berkowicz, also artistic director of Misteria Paschalia, is an innovative new music festival that takes place in September, taking a different country as its theme each year.
Jilin celebrates the phenomenon each year from mid-December to February with the Jilin International Rime Ice and Snow Festival.
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