Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, Sudogwon, South Korea

🇰🇷 Icheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Together with Yeoju, Icheon is known as a centre 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. cheon is home to Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip maker.

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 (eup), 8 townships (myeon), and 4 neighbourhoods (dong): • Janghowon-eup, 장호원읍, 長湖院邑; • Bubal-eup, 부발읍, 夫鉢邑; • Sindun-myeon, 신둔면, 新屯面; • Baeksa-myeon, 백사면, 栢沙面; • Hobeop-myeon, 호법면, 戶法面; • Majang-myeon, 마장면, 麻長面; • Daewol-myeon, 대월면, 大月面; • Moga-myeon, 모가면, 暮加面; • Seolseong-myeon, 설성면, 雪星面; • Yul-myeon, 율면, 栗面; • Changjeon-dong, 창전동, 倉前洞; • Jeungpo-dong, 증포동, 增浦洞; • Jungni-dong, 중리동, 中里洞; • Gwango-dong, 관고동, 官庫洞.

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 recognised 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 centre of the effort to preserve these traditions.