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Suncheon (Suncheon-si) is a city in South Jeolla (Jeollanam-do) Province, South Korea. It is a scenic agricultural and industrial city of around 250,000 people nearby the sea at Suncheon Bay . It's 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. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
Hangul (hangul: 한글; revised: hangeul; McCune-Reischauer: hangÅl) is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ...
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The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ...
McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ...
Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
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Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 1 Special City (Teukbyeolsi), 6 Metropolitan Cities (Gwangyeoksi), and 9 Provinces (Do). ...
South Jeolla is a province in the southwest of South Korea. ...
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Gwangyang (Gwangyang-si) is a city in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. ...
The city 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. Suncheon is dubbed by its city council as the City of Beautiful People.
Suncheon's new slogan is "A-HA Suncheon." They decided on this because they could not think of anything else.
Suncheon's nearby attractions include:
- Waeseong (왜성 - 倭城), a small, 16th-century castle built by the Japanese;
- 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; and
- Boseong tea plantations.
Songgwangsa is one of the most important Seon Buddhist monasteries in Korea, located on Jogye Mountain. ...
Boseong County (Boseong_gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. ...
Photograph of Suncheon city centre
 Photograph of downtown Suncheon taken from a small mountain nearby in May 2005. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 409 KB) Summary Photograph of the downtown region of Suncheon city taken from a small mountain behind the city centre in May 2005. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 409 KB) Summary Photograph of the downtown region of Suncheon city taken from a small mountain behind the city centre in May 2005. ...
See also This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...
Map of South Korea The largest cities in South Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces. ...
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