This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Gangjin County" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2018)
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Korean. (January 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Korean Wikipedia article at [[:ko:강진군]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|ko|강진군}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.
(Learn how and when to remove this message)
County in Honam, South Korea
Gangjin
강진군
County
Korean transcription(s)
• Hangul
강진군
• Hanja
康津郡
• Revised Romanization
Gangjin-gun
• McCune-Reischauer
Kangjin-gun
Flag
Emblem of Gangjin
Location in South Korea
Country
South Korea
Region
Honam
Administrative divisions
1 eup, 10 myeon
Area
• Total
495.98 km2 (191.50 sq mi)
Population
(2001)
• Total
49,254
• Density
99.3/km2 (257/sq mi)
• Dialect
Jeolla
Gangjin County (Korean: 강진군; RR: Gangjin-gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Gangjin county proper was established in 1895. The county office is located in Gangjin-eup.
The Gangjin Kiln Sites are a noted area for the production of traditional Goryeo celadon, and annually a big festival and symposium on celadon porcelain at the Goryeo Celadon Museum with participants from all over the world takes place in Gangjin city.
Additionally, it is the birthplace of Korean poet Yeongrang Kim Yun-sik, famous for his work in the 1930s and 1940s in the Jeolla dialect.
The county bird is the magpie. The county flower is the camellia, and the county tree is the ginkgo. There are also two mascots, Gang and Jin, who represent fire and water, respectively, and who appear throughout the county on signs and sidewalks.
A small portion of Wolchulsan National Park is located in Gangjin County.
There is a monument to 17th-century Dutch explorer Hendrick Hamel, the first westerner to experience and write about Korea's Joseon Dynasty era. Hamel and his men were shipwrecked on Jeju island, and they remained captives in Korea for 13 years.
GangjinCounty (Korean: 강진군; RR: Gangjin-gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Gangjincounty proper was established in 1895. The county...
(고려청자박물관), formerly known also as the Gangjin Celadon Museum, is a museum located in Sadang-ri (Sadang Village), GangjinCounty, South Jeolla, South Korea. It...
Two similar statues exist of Hamel, one in Gorinchem and another in GangjinCounty, South Korea. On 4 June 2015, the Hendrick Hamel Museum opened in Gorinchem...
Maryang is located in Gangjincounty, South Jeolla province, South Korea. It is one of ten myeon in Gangjincounty, and it is notable for commercial and...
specialty of the Jeolla Province is konggejeot (콩게젓) which is indigenous to GangjinCounty. The gejang is made by grinding crabs as small as a bean (kong in Korean)...
Gyeongsang Sungsan Hyodo Graduate School – Incheon Sunghwa College – GangjinCounty, South Jeolla Sungkonghoe University – Seoul Sungkyul University – Anyang...
nearby regions, including in Hwasun County, Naju, Haenam County, Mokpo, Yeongam County, GangjinCounty, and Muan County, all in South Jeolla. While protests...
in Gangjincounty, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Its highest point is at Udubong (우두봉), 439 metres. Boeunsan is north of Gangjin-eup in Gangjin county...
Provincial College – Damyang County/Jangheung County Chunnam Techno University – Gokseong County Dong-A College – Yeongam County Hanyeong College – Yeosu...
Baengnyeon Temple (백련사) is a Buddhist temple located in Doam-myeon, Gangjincounty, South Jeolla province, South Korea. Its name means "White Lotus" temple...
spans both Gangjin and Yeongam counties. At its peak, Cheonhwangbong, it rises to 808.7 meters, making it the highest point in GangjinCounty. It lies in...
has an elevation of 475 metres. It is part of a range that runs from GangjinCounty. The mountain is named for the Vermilion Bird, a red phoenix deity,...
Gangjin Baseball Park is a baseball stadium in GangjinCounty, South Korea. 34°33′29″N 126°45′55″E / 34.55819°N 126.76528°E / 34.55819; 126.76528 v...
Geoje County Geumreung County Gimhae County Gimje County Gongju County Gwangyang County Gyeongju County Gyeongsan County Iksan County Jecheon County Jeongeup...
of 188 kilns which produced Goryeo ware. The kiln sites are located in Gangjin-gun, South Jeolla Province, South Korea near the sea. Mountains in the...
and porcelain Goryeo Celadon Museum in Sadang-ri (Sadang Village), GangjinCounty Visit Korea webpage for Haegang Ceramics Museum Directions to the museum...
Full name Kim In Hangul 김인 Hanja 金寅 Born (1943-11-23)November 23, 1943 GangjinCounty, Korea, Empire of Japan Died April 4, 2021(2021-04-04) (aged 77) Teacher...
one of the divisions of a county, and of some cities with a population of less than 500,000. The main town or towns in a county—or the secondary town or...
Muwisa (무위사) is a Buddhist temple in Wolchulsan, GangjinCounty, South Jeolla province, South Korea. Geungnakjeon Hall, National Treasure No. 13, is on...
and county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Bordered with Mokpo and Naju to the north, Jangheung County to the east, and Haenam and Gangjin to the...
Hampyeong County, Yeonggwang County and Jangseong County northern Jeonnam Goheung–Boseong–Jangheung–Gangjin 151,441 Goheung County, Boseong County, Jangheung...
Sunghwa College was a college located in Gangjin, South Korea. It was shut down by the Korean government in 2011 following "serious corruption and irregularities"...
Global Information
South Korea