Gangjin County Explained

Gangjin
Native Name Lang:ko
Settlement Type:County
Translit Lang1:Korean
Translit Lang1 Type1:Hangul
Translit Lang1 Info1:강진군
Translit Lang1 Type2:Hanja
Translit Lang1 Info3:Gangjin-gun
Translit Lang1 Info4:Kangjin-gun
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Honam
Population Blank1 Title:Dialect
Population Blank1:Jeolla
Area Total Km2:495.98
Population As Of:2001
Population Total:49254
Population Density Km2:99.3
Parts Type:Administrative divisions
Parts:1 eup, 10 myeon
Image Blank Emblem:Gangjin logo.png
Blank Emblem Type:Emblem of Gangjin

Gangjin County 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.

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