Yesan () is a

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

South Chungcheong South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. South Chungcheong borders the provinces of Gyeonggi to the north, North Chungcheong, Sejong ...

Province,

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. Famous people from Yesan include independence fighter

Yoon Bong-Gil Yun Bong-gil (; 21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence activist. His art name is Maeheon (). He is most notable for his role in the Hongkou Park Incident, in which he set off a bomb that killed two Japanese colonial gover ...

Sudeoksa Sudeoksa () is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism. It is located on the southern slopes of Deoksungsan in Deoksan-myeon, Yesan County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Sudeoksa was one of very few temples not destroyed ...

, a head temple of the

Jogye Order The Jogye Order, officially known as the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, (대한불교조계종, 大韓佛敎曹溪宗), is the leading order of traditional Korean Buddhism, with roots dating back 1,200 years to the late Silla period. Around ...

Korean Buddhism Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its attempt to resolve what its early practitioners saw as inconsistencies within the Mahayana Buddhist traditions that they received from foreign countries. To address this, they ...

, is located on the southern slopes of Deoksungsan in Deoksan-myeon, Yesan County. Its main hall is ''

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'' (), Korea's oldest wooden building and

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49. In 2009, Yesan was designated a "slow city," one in which traditional cultures and communities are preserved.

Transportation

* Yesan Citybus

Sister cities

Domestic

Seocho-gu Seocho District () is one of the List of districts of Seoul, 25 districts which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Seocho is a part of the Gangnam (Seoul), Gangnam region, along with the Gangnam District, Gangnam district of Seoul. Seocho D ...

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Seongbuk-gu Seongbuk District () is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea. The district is located in the mid-north part of the city. The current mayor is Lee Seung-ro, who has been mayor since July 2018. Seongbuk District was established under Pres ...

, Seoul *

Yeonsu-gu Yeonsu District () is a district in southern Incheon, South Korea. To the east is Namdong District (Namdong District), on its north border is Nam District (Nam District), and the Yellow Sea is on the west and south sides. Munhak Mountain (Munha ...

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Anyang Anyang ( zh, s=安阳, t=安陽; ) is a prefecture-level city in Henan, China. Geographical coordinates are 35° 41'~ 36° 21' north latitude and 113° 38'~ 114° 59' east longitude. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the eas ...

Gyeonggi Gyeonggi Province (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Seoul, the nation's largest city and capital, is in the heart of the area but has been separately administered as a provincial-level ''special city'' since 1946. Incheon, ...

International

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, United States

Gallery

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Notable people

Park Hyo-shin Park Hyo-shin (; born September 1, 1981) is a South Korean singer and musical theatre actor. Following his debut as a singer in 1999, Park released numerous hit songs in the 2000s, including "Good Person" (2002), "Snow Flower" (2004) and "Me ...

; singer *

Yun Dae-nyeong Yoon Dae-nyeong (born 1962) () is a South Korean writer. Life Yoon Dae-nyeong was born in 1962 in Yesan, South Chungcheong South Chungcheong Province (), informally called Chungnam, is a province of South Korea in the Hoseo region in the ...

; Author *

Yun Bong-gil Yun Bong-gil (; 21 June 1908 – 19 December 1932) was a Korean independence movement, Korean independence activist. His art name is Maeheon (). He is most notable for his role in the Hongkou Park Incident, in which he set off a bomb that kille ...

; fighter for independence *

Hwang Sun-hong Hwang Sun-hong (born 14 July 1968) is a South Korean former football player and current manager of the South Korea national under-23 football team and manager of Daejeon Hana Citizen. His playing career included spells abroad at clubs in Germ ...

; former footballer and current manager *

Baek Jong-won Paik Jong-won (; born September 4, 1966), sometimes spelled Baek Jong-won, is a South Korean businessman. In television, he is known as the main host of the cooking television series '' Baek Jong-won's Top 3 Chef King'' (2015–2017), '' Baek J ...

; food researcher, businessman, entertainer.

References

External links

Official government website
Counties of South Chungcheong Province {{SouthChungcheong-geo-stub