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Suncheon (Suncheon-si) is a city in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. It is a popular city in South Korea by education, transportation, and its beautiful people and nature. Located in the province of Jeollanam-do, Suncheon is the 2nd noiseless city in South Korea as well as an excellent dwelling site and a choke point with convenient transportation system for Yeocheon industrial park and Gwangyang POSCO in nearby cities. It is a scenic agricultural and industrial city of around 250,000 people near Suncheon Bay. It is located in the southeastern corner of Jeollanam-do, just over an hour south-east of Gwangju. Forty minutes south of Suncheon is the port city of Yeosu, and twenty minutes to the west of Suncheon is Gwangyang. It is currently experiencing strong development due to being included as part of the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone, one of three newly created Free Economic Zones (FEZs) in South Korea due to open within the next decade.
[edit] History
- Samhan - Mahan
- Samguk - Baekje / Gampyeong-gun
- Unified Silla / Seungpyeong-gun {Gyeongdeok-wang(757)}
- Goryeo / Seungju {Taejo of Goryeo(940)} / Seungpyeong-gun{Seongjong(983)} / Seungju-mok(elevated){Chungseon-wang(1309)}
- Joseon / Taejong(1413) Suncheon Dohobu / Kojong(1895) Suncheon-gun
- Nov.1.1931: Suncheon-gun, Suncheon-myeon were elevated to Suncheon-euop
- Aug.15.1949: In Aug.13 After having incorporated Dosa-myeon 9 ris, Haeryong-myeon(Wangji, Jorye, Yeonhyang), It was elevated into Suncheon-si in Aug.15th.
- Jan.1.1995: Suncheon-si incorporated Seungju-gun.
[edit] Slogans
On its website, Suncheon is dubbed by its city council as the City of Beautiful People, and its slogan is "Aha! Suncheon." [1]
[edit] Nearby attractions
Photograph of downtown Suncheon taken from a small mountain nearby in May 2005.
- Suncheon Japanese Castle (왜성 waeseong - 倭城), a key point of honam, 16th-century castle built by the Japanese;
- Suncheon Geomdan castle on a hill (순천검단산성 Suncheon Geomdansanseong - 順天檢丹山城), Baekje stone castle;
- Naganeupseong Folk Village (낙안읍성 민속마을), the largest remaining South Korean fort city built on a plain;
- Seonamsa (선암사 - 仙岩寺) Buddhist temple;
- Songgwangsa (송광사 - 松廣寺) Buddhist temple;
- Boseong tea plantations.
- Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites (고창 / 화순 / 강화 고인돌공원), a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000;
- Jukdobong park (죽도봉 공원 - 竹島峰公園) Observation mountain park;and
- Suncheon bay (순천만 - 順天灣), a popular bay with the field of reeds.
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