If you go to Goesan, there is a very large cauldron that weighs as much as 43 tons.
Goesan's super-large cauldron was proposed in 2003 by former county governor Kim Moon-bae with the intention of "promoting military-civil harmony", and was unveiled in July 2005 after a total of eight failures.
With a diameter of 5m, a height of 2m, and a circumference of over 18m, it is the largest cauldron in Korea, weighing 43.5 tons of cast iron.
The production cost was also 500 million won.
It was the amount of 230 million won in donations from residents added to the military budget.
Some residents even gave away scrap metal from their homes.
It promoted that it could cook rice for 37,000 people, but failed to cook rice.
The temperature difference inside the pot was so great that the bottom was burnt and the top was undercooked, resulting in '3-layer rice'. Because of this, the event was not held at all from 2007, two years later, and it became a nuisance.
There is also an opinion to relocate the cauldron, but Kim Yeong-hwan, governor of North Chungcheong Province, expressed his opposition on his SNS.
Governor Kim said that this cauldron "shows the shabby downfall of a huge waste of budget and false consciousness," and used the word 'Jingbi', which means 'we must rule it properly and be wary of the troubles that will come after it', and said, "It is currently located as an installation art of Jingbi. You shouldn't move even one step in."
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