Fishy business at the Mountain Trout Ice Festival
One of the world's great winter festivals takes place in South Korea
LIFESTYLE Hwacheon sancheoneo
South Korea's annual Hwacheon Sancheoneo, or Mountain Trout Ice Festival, attracts thousands of visitors and features an ice fishing competition in which the participants compete with traditional lures or bare hands. Unsurprisingly then, the images that come out of this event are naturally stunning.
Browse this gallery and visit this extraordinary winter event.