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Imsil County (Imsil-gun) is a county in North Jeolla Province, South Korea.
[edit] Cheese village
Imsil is the first place succeeding the development of pure Korean own cheese. The sort of cheese is called Imsil cheese naming county name. Pizza franchise made of Imsil cheese are widely on business in South Korea since 2004 under the name of Imsil Cheese Pizza.[1]
One of the most unusual mission legacies of a Catholic priest from Belgium who took the Korean name of Ji Junghwan. He arrived in the farming village of Imsil, 30 minutes south of Jeonju, in the mid-1950s, when the economy was still shattered from the Korean war. He started a farmers’ milk cooperative. This cooperative eventually became the Imsil Cheese Factory, which exists today and produces high quality cheese and yogurt for the Korean market.
A group of enterprising cheese manufacturers decided to branch out into making cheese pizza. In time, Ji Junghwan’s Imsil Cheese Pizza became one of the most popular brands and today it can be found throughout Korea. Pictured on every box is the Belgian missionary priest, probably the only missionary in the world to have left a pizza chain as part of his legacy.
This village allow one day or more vacation program for children and foreigners to learn how to ferment cheese. Besides, stock farms are near naturally as producing cheese requires production of dairy products.
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