Jecheon

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City in North Chungcheong, South Korea

title: "Jecheon" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["jecheon", "cities-in-north-chungcheong-province"] description: "City in North Chungcheong, South Korea" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jecheon" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary City in North Chungcheong, South Korea ::

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Field	Value
name	Jecheon
native_name	제천시
translit_lang1	Korean
settlement_type	Municipal City
translit_lang1_type1	Hangul
translit_lang1_info1	제천시
translit_lang1_type2	Hanja
translit_lang1_info2	{{linktext
translit_lang1_type3	Revised Romanization
translit_lang1_info3	Jecheon-si
translit_lang1_type4	McCune–Reischauer
translit_lang1_info4	Chech'ŏn-si
image_skyline	Korea-Jecheon-SBS Jecheon setting 3329-07.JPG
image_map	North Chungcheong-Jecheon.svg
map_caption	Location in South Korea
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	South Korea
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_name1	Hoseo
population_blank1_title	Dialect
population_blank1	Chungcheong
area_total_km2	882.47
population_as_of	September 2024
population_total	129,066
population_density_km2	auto
parts_type	Administrative divisions
parts	1 eup, 7 myeon, 9 dong
image_blank_emblem	Jecheon.png
blank_emblem_type	Emblem of Jecheon
area_code	(+82) 43-6xx
image_flag	Flag of Jecheon.svg
government_footnotes	tags --
leader_title	mayor
leader_name	Kim Chang-gyu ()
leader_name1
timezone1	Korea Standard Time
utc_offset1	+9
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The city's name derives from the Korean words je ({{linktext|堤}}, which means "dam") and cheon (川, which means "river").

Location

Jecheon is located in the northern part of North Chungcheong Province bordering Mungyeong to the south, while Wonju and Yeongwol-gun, which are located in Gangwon Province, are to the north. It is well known for its mountains and lake environments. Jecheon is well known as the "healing city". A wide variety of traditional medical and herbal products and therapies are available, attracting people all over Korea to visit the city.

As Korea's overall inland mountainous area, the natural environment is well preserved, and the air is so clear and pleasant that most mountain villages do not lose. Since there are not many ruins or tourist facilities in the city, Uirimji, built during the Samhan period, is used as a representative tourist destination.

Herbs are famous as local specialties. In particular, Hwanggi is said to distribute 80% of the nation's distribution through local herbal markets.

Climate

Jecheon has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen: Dwa) with cold, dry winters and hot, rainy summers.

It is so cold that it often snows in April, commonly called Jeberia. There are even times when it hits minus 20 degrees Celsius in winter. Along with Bonghwa-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do, it is the coldest winter region in the region south of Gangwon State and Gyeonggi-do. When a cold wave warning is issued in a nearby area, it is common to issue a cold wave warning, and padding is a must-have for winter rather than a coat. This is because it is an inland region and a double basin of 300m above sea level consisting of high mountains easily exceeding 1,000m above sea level, such as Chiaksan, Sobaeksan, and Wolaksan. As a result, it is an area where the annual temperature difference is quite large, similar to Cheorwon-gun when it is really cold. According to the official observation, the lowest temperature ever recorded was -27.4 °C on January 4, 1981. Since the 2010s, -25.9 °C recorded on January 6, 2010 and February 3, 2012 was the lowest. | location = Jecheon (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1972–present) | metric first = Y | single line = Y

| source = Korea Meteorological Administration (snow and percent sunshine 1981–2010) | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220129211110/https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf | archive-date = 29 January 2022 | url = https://data.kma.go.kr/resources/normals/pdf_data/korea_pdf_0106_v2.pdf | title = Climatological Normals of Korea (1991 ~ 2020) | publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration | access-date = 4 April 2022 | language = ko}} | url = https://data.kma.go.kr/climate/extremum/selectExtremumList.do?pgmNo=103 | publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration | access-date = 4 April 2022 | script-title = ko:순위값 - 구역별조회 | language = ko}} | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161207185450/http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf | archive-date = 7 December 2016 | url = http://www.kma.go.kr/down/Climatological_2010.pdf | publisher = Korea Meteorological Administration | access-date = 8 December 2016 | title = Climatological Normals of Korea | date = 2011}}

Tourism

Ten views in the city:

Uirimji
Bakdaljae
Woraksan Mountain
Cheongpoong cultural town, Hoban
Geumsusan
Yonghagugok
Songgyegyegok
Oksunbong
Taksajeong
Baeronseongji
Solbat Park
Deokjusansang Fortress
Jecheon Hyanggyo
Cheongpungho Lake Observatory

Twin towns – sister cities

Jecheon is twinned with:

TWN Hualien City, Taiwan
PHL Pasay, Philippines
CHN Qichun County, China
USA Spokane, United States
CHN Zhangshu, China

Notable people from Jecheon

Kim So-hui (), taekwondo practitioner
Park Sang-ha (), volleyball player
Jung Woong-in (), actor
Lee Sang-kyu (), activist, labourer and politician
Lee Byungryul (), poet, television writer, and prose writer
Choi Geum-jin (), poet
Uhm Jung-hwa (), singer, actress and dancer
Hwiyoung (Real Name: Kim Young-kyun, ), singer, dancer, actor and K-pop idol, member of K-pop boygroup SF9
Microdot and Sanchez, rappers, brothers, grew up in Auckland City, New Zealand.
Lim Sung-jin (), volleyball player

References

(2024). "Population statistics".
Official page
"Sister/Friend city". Jecheon.

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