- Hongseong
Infobox Korean settlement
logo=Hongseong logo.gif
hangul=홍성군
hanja=洪城郡
rr=Hongseong-gun
mr=Hongsŏng-gun
area_km2=443.5
pop=93558|popnote= [ [http://home.hongseong.go.kr/eng/02/02_03_01.htm] Dead link|date=May 2008]
popyear=2001
popden_km2=211.0
divs=2 "eup", 9 "myeon"
Hongseong County ("Hongseong-gun") is a county in
South Chungcheong Province,South Korea . Famous people from Hongseong include martyred ministerSeong Sam-mun and early Korean anarchistKim Jwa-jin .Chungwoon University is located in Hongseong.Historic figures
Lots of historic people were born in Hongseong.
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Seong Sammun : Notable scholar duringJoseon dynasty.
*Kim Jwa-jin : Korean independence activistCultural 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. [ [http://hongseong.go.kr/english/culture/culture_01_01.html Welcome to HONGSEONG ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ] ]
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. ["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]References
ee also
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Geography of South Korea References
External links
* [http://hsportal.hongseong.go.kr/english/ Official local government website]
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