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Located in the mid-western part of Korea, Gyeonggi-do embraces Seoul. It offers a variety of beautiful tourist destinations and cultural facilities along the Hangang River. Gyeonggi-do is also proud to embody traditional Korean culture with such places as the Suwon Hwaseong Fortress, the Korean Folk Village and Icheon, which is famous for ceramics. Moreover, visitors can also visit Everland, a huge and exciting amusement park.

 
 


[Icheon]
Icheon Ceramics Village makes traditional Korean ceramics, and represents Korea in the quality ceramics it produces. Presently about 80 pottery factories are congregated at the village, and about 300 pottery kilns are in use. Visitors can have tours on the pottery production process, and buy pottery directly. And Icheon is also famous for its hot springs, discovered in1870. The water's high sodium concentration is beneficial for soothing problem skin, arthritis and gynecological diseases.

 
 


[Gwangju]

The white porcelain pottery kilns in Kwangju-gun, Namjong-myon's Punwon-ri and Kumsa-ri are would renown as the origin of the Choson white porcelain. The entire region of Kwangju-gun was used primarily for state-run porcelain factories since the early Choson period. Firewood was abundant, the white clay was of excellent quality, and the Han River facilitated transportation of the finished goods

 
 


[Yeoju]
Sejongtaewangnung is the tomb of King Sejong (1397-1450) and his wife Queen Sohyon of the Choson Era (1392-1910). King Wejong not only created Hangul, the Korean alpabet, but also contributed greatly in the fields of politics, economics, culture, defense and education, Inventions in the field of astronomy, culture, defense and education.

 
   
World Ceramic Exposition Foundation San 69-1, Gwan-go-dong, Icheon-shi, Gyeonggi-do 467-020 Republic of  Korea TEL. + 82-31-631-6513 FAX. + 82-31-631-1614 : 031-631-1614
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