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.
Icheon is home to Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip maker.

Fires

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

Geography

Neighboring districts include Yeoju City, Gwangju City, Yongin City, and Anseong City 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

Dongnam-gu 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

Climate

Incheon has a humid continental climate.

City symbols

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.

Twin towns – sister cities

Icheon is twinned with: