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Icheon ceramics

Icheon dojagi Ich'ŏn tojagi M–R

A modern ceramics centre in Gyeonggi Province, with about 420 workshops according to the city. Its ceramics village grew up after the Yeongdong Expressway opened and was said to make about a third of Korea's ceramics.

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Forms, use and context#

Icheon holds a ceramics festival every year since 1987 and has been a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art since 2010.

Body#

Not yet verified: no source read describes Icheon clay bodies.

Typical objects#

Not yet verified: no source read names Icheon tea wares

Periods#

  1. late 20th century – presentThe village formed after the Yeongdong Expressway opened.1

Kiln sites#

SitePeriodSources
Sindun-myeon ceramics villagemodern1

Heritage listings#

2010

UNESCO Creative Cities Network, Crafts and Folk Art4

Other recorded fields#

Events
  • Name: Icheon Ceramic Festival (이천도자기축제) Since: 1987 Note: Held yearly since 1987 (city history page); the 39th edition ran 25 April to 6 May 2025 at Yes Park and the Sagimakgol pottery village.23

Sources#

  1. 이천시Academy of Korean Studies (Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, 한국민족문화대백과사전) · Encyclopedias · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  2. 이천도자기 역사Icheon City (이천시청) · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  3. 이천도자기축제, 2025년 경기대표관광축제 (press release, 2025-02-11)Icheon City (이천시청) · Government and heritage records · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
  4. Icheon (UNESCO Creative Cities Network)UNESCO · Intergovernmental bodies · Accessed 2026-11-02 ↗
Status and editorial notes draft

Sources are listed below. Their presence does not certify every claim; source-specific interpretations and unresolved questions are identified in the text. This page has not received independent expert approval.

  • no source read describes Icheon clay bodies.
  • no source read names Icheon tea wares
  • Draft written 2026-11-02 from the sources listed, each read on that date (Korean-language pages through the web-fetch tool). Korea Heritage Service records (heritage.go.kr, khs.go.kr) refused every cloud fetch, so designation numbers come from encyclopedia captions or city pages and stay Not yet verified until a Mac pass reads the official record. McCune-Reischauer forms were added by rule and need a native check. Korean is not one of the site's six languages: names.ko is a name only, no Korean prose. The 'one third of Korean output' figure is the encyclopedia's undated statement; give it with that attribution.
  • Not yet verified: Draft written 2026-11-02 from the sources listed, each read on that date (Korean-language pages through the web-fetch tool). Korea Heritage Service records (heritage.go.kr, khs.go.kr) refused every cloud fetch, so designation numbers come from encyclopedia captions or city pages and stay Not yet verified until a Mac pass reads the official record. McCune-Reischauer forms were added by rule and need a native check. Korean is not one of the site's six languages: names.ko is a name only, no Korean prose. The 'one third of Korean output' figure is the encyclopedia's undated statement; give it with that attribution.