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As the number of local festivals is increasing rapidly, more nationwide cooking contests are being held as part of supplementary events. Surprisingly, however, analysis and studies are hardly done at all regarding those contests so far. In this study, nationwide cooking contests held in 2012 are compared and classified by the date, the region or the type of organizer to analyze them by types. It turns out that many of the contests happened between September and November and the region of Seoul and surrounding Gyeonggi Province surpassed other regions in holding those events. In terms of the type of organizers, local authorities held most of them, indicating these cook-offs were mainly planned to help identify local dish and boost local economy. Since I planned and directed the cooking contest for Gyeonggi Food Festival, the tested process of planning and implementing is introduced along with ideas for improvement, which intends to provide practical guidelines for planning well-designed culinary contests. Furthermore, both planners and researchers in the field of cooking contests who want to maximize the guest satisfaction by avoiding typical contests may find this study helpful and inspiring to build a differentiated strategy. Prospective culinary professionals preparing for cook-offs and faculty in the culinary institutions who train their students for contests may make good use of the study as it analyzed types of nationwide cooking contests in Korea.