Korea’s best-known winter festivals are struggling to adapt to an increasingly unreliable cold season, with climate change unsettling the ice, snow and fishing conditions that once defined them. In North Gyeongsang Province, the city of Andong canceled the Amsan Ice Festival just 10 days before its scheduled opening on Jan. 17, after ice at the riverside venue failed to reach the minimum 25 centimeters required for safe sledding, skating and ice fishing. The festival, which typically draws about 300,000 visitors, was called off for the second time in three years because of poor ice conditions. Festivals in Gangwon Province have been dealing with similar setbacks. Inje County scrapped its signature smelt ice fishing festival on the Soyang River for a third consecutive year, after an unusually rainy autumn raised dam reservoir levels and repeated warm spells prevented the ice from forming properly, with flooding in parts of the planned venue. Nearby Pyeongchang postponed the opening of its trout festival from Jan. 1 to Jan. 9 and shortened its planned 40-day run by about 10 days after ic