Hongseong

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Hongseong
Hangul 홍성군
Hanja 洪城郡
Revised Romanization Hongseong-gun
McCune-Reischauer Hongsŏng-gun
Statistics
Area 443.5 km² (171.2 sq mi)
Population (2001) 93,558 [1]
Population density 211.0 /km² (546 /sq mi)
Administrative divisions 2 eup, 9 myeon
Location map
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Hongseong County (Hongseong-gun) is a county in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Famous people from Hongseong include martyred minister Seong Sam-mun and early Korean anarchist Kim Jwa-jin. Chungwoon University is located in Hongseong.

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[edit] Historic figures

Lots of historic people were born in Hongseong.

[edit] Cultural assets

In Hongcheon, large statue of Buddha engraved on a protruding rock carved into the shape of a shrine.

Overall, the headpiece is solid and integrity is shown on the face, but the statue is unbalanced from of its loss of volume towards the bottom.[2]

[edit] Festival

Its well-known festival is egg cockle festival. Hongseong area meets coast and muds are ahead of it. Its topographical feature possible to get lots of egg cockles.

The taste of egg cockle is unique and not easy to eat in city area. Because of these reasons, the festival got success step by step. However, oil spill around Taean made it more difficult to host festival these days. Fortunately, Hongseong did not get direct damgage caused by terrible oil split. County proclaimed to take place its host in Jan 16 of 2008. [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ [1][dead link]
  2. ^ Welcome to HONGSEONG :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  3. ^ 홍성 새조개축제 18일 개막 Yeonhap News 2008.01.16 http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=101&oid=001&aid=0001895266

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