Icheon


Icheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Together with Yeoju, Icheon is known as a center of South Korean ceramic manufacturing and is a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art. Other famous local products include peaches and rice. Local institutions of higher learning include Korea Tourism College and Chungkang College of Cultural Industries. The city is also home to SK Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip maker.
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Geography

Neighboring districts include Yeoju, Gwangju, Yongin, and Anseong within Gyeonggi Province, as well as Eumseong County in North Chungcheong Province.
The Yeongdong Expressway and Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway pass through Icheon. In 2016, the city will connect into the Seoul Metropolitan Subway via Yeoju Line's Icheon Station.

Administrative divisions

Icheon is divided into 2 towns, 8 townships, and 4 neighbourhoods.
HangulHanja
Janghowon-eup장호원읍長湖院邑
Bubal-eup부발읍夫鉢邑
Sindun-myeon신둔면新屯面
Baeksa-myeon백사면栢沙面
Hobeop-myeon호법면戶法面
Majang-myeon마장면麻長面
Daewol-myeon대월면大月面
Moga-myeon모가면暮加面
Seolseong-myeon설성면雪星面
Yul-myeon율면栗面
Changjeon-dong창전동倉前洞
Jeungpo-dong증포동增浦洞
Jungni-dong중리동中里洞
Gwango-dong관고동官庫洞

Population and Business

There are 230,000 people living, including about 220,000 Koreans and 11,000 foreigners. More than 1,200 companies employ about 40,000 people.

Climate

Icheon has a humid continental climate.

City symbols

  • City bird: Magpie
  • City flower: Azaleas
  • City tree: Pine

Ceramic village

The Icheon Ceramics Village features 300-plus ceramics-making firms in the area of Sugwang-ri, Sindun-myeon, Saeum-dong, and a popular visitor attraction. They use traditional skills and produce porcelains in some 40 traditional firewood kilns. This pottery is recognized both at home and abroad for its quality.
The Saeum-dong and Sindun-myeon areas also include a ceramics village with many ceramics stores. Potters have researched traditional methods and revived the manufacture of ceramics in the style of Goryeo celadon and Joseon white porcelain here. The village is the center of the effort to preserve these traditions.

UNESCO

Icheon was designated as a UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art, in  in 2010. In 2018, the city was elected as the first designated city for Craft and Folk Art among South Korea's creative cities. It served as the designated city until September 2021.

Education

University

Fires

Major building fires occurred on 7 January 2008 and on 29 April 2020.

Twin towns – sister cities

Icheon is twinned with:

Notable people