Icheon
| Icheon 이천 利川 |
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| — Municipal City — | |||
| Korean transcription(s) | |||
| • Hangul | 이천시 | ||
| • Hanja | 利川市 | ||
| • Revised Romanization | Icheon-si | ||
| • McCune-Reischauer | Ich'ŏn-si | ||
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| Country |  South Korea |
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| Region | Sudogwon | ||
| Administrative divisions | 2 eup, 8 myeon, 4 dong | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Jee H Choe | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 461 km2 (178 sq mi) | ||
| Population | |||
| • Total | 196,230 | ||
| • Dialect | Seoul | ||
Icheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It should not be confused with the much larger Incheon Metropolitan City. Neighboring districts include Yeoju County, Gwangju City, Yongin City, and Anseong City within Gyeonggi province, as well as Eumseong County in North Chungcheong Province. Together with Yeoju, Icheon is known as a center of South Korean ceramic manufacture. Other famous local products include peaches and rice. Local institutions of higher learning include Korea Tourism College and Chungkang College of Cultural Industries.
The Yeongdong Expressway and Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway pass through Icheon.
Icheon is home to Hynix, the world's second largest memory chip maker.
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[edit] City Symbols
- City Bird : Magpie
- City Flower : Azaleas
- City Tree : Pine
[edit] Famous people
- Nicholas C Kim : Debater and basketball superstar[citation needed].
- Seo Hui : The historic figure of Goryeo dynasty who made a huge decision with Khitan people who was forcefully occupying northern areas of Korean peninsula.[citation needed]
[edit] Ceramic villages
The Icheon Ceramics Village features 300-plus ceramics-making firms in the area of Sugwang-ri, Sindun-myeon, Saeum-dong. 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.[1]
[edit] Climate
| Climate data for Icheon (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 2.8 (37.0) |
6.3 (43.3) |
12.1 (53.8) |
19.3 (66.7) |
24.2 (75.6) |
27.5 (81.5) |
29.0 (84.2) |
29.9 (85.8) |
25.8 (78.4) |
20.4 (68.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
4.7 (40.5) |
17.8 (64.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
5.2 (41.4) |
11.9 (53.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
21.7 (71.1) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.8 (76.6) |
19.8 (67.6) |
13.0 (55.4) |
5.4 (41.7) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
11.6 (52.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−1 (30) |
4.9 (40.8) |
11.1 (52.0) |
16.6 (61.9) |
20.7 (69.3) |
21.0 (69.8) |
15.0 (59.0) |
7.2 (45.0) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
6.2 (43.2) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 22.5 (0.886) |
23.9 (0.941) |
47.4 (1.866) |
74.0 (2.913) |
93.8 (3.693) |
146.0 (5.748) |
370.2 (14.575) |
319.9 (12.594) |
176.0 (6.929) |
42.1 (1.657) |
38.8 (1.528) |
16.3 (0.642) |
1,370.8 (53.969) |
| % humidity | 64.4 | 59.9 | 58.0 | 55.3 | 62.1 | 67.8 | 77.3 | 76.9 | 74.5 | 70.4 | 67.1 | 66.6 | 66.7 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.0 | 4.6 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 9.4 | 14.6 | 13.8 | 9.0 | 5.0 | 7.1 | 6.1 | 97.4 |
| Sunshine hours | 166.1 | 169.1 | 192.1 | 210.8 | 221.8 | 187.0 | 141.2 | 159.4 | 165.6 | 188.4 | 152.6 | 158.3 | 2,113.7 |
| Source: Korea Meteorological Administration [2] | |||||||||||||
[edit] Sister cities
Jingdezhen city , China(1997)
Seto city, Japan(2004)
Gangdong, South Korea- Gangnam, South Korea
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Official pages of Icheon city
- ^ "평년값자료(1981−2010) 이천(203)". Korea Meteorological Administration. http://www.kma.go.kr/weather/climate/average_30years.jsp?yy_st=2011&stn=203&norm=M&x=21&y=8&obs=0&mm=5&dd=2. Retrieved 2011−05−02.
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Coordinates: 37°16′N 127°26′E / 37.267°N 127.433°E
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