Chungju
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Chungju is a city in North Chungcheong province, South Korea. Namsan is a mountain located in the city.
The city is famous for the annual martial arts festival held in October.
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[edit] Symbol
- City Flower : Chrysanthemum
- City Bird : Mandarin duck
- City Tree : Apple tree
[edit] Festival
Chungju city officially has held martial arts festival which is quite unusual events in South Korea. It started the year of 1998, this festival is held annually in October. The theme is "Meeting of the five-thousand-year-old Soul" and the world martial arts. [1]
In 2007, foreign players from 20 nations join martial arts festival. Many sports was shown such as sambo of Russia, Muay Thai of Thailand.[2]
[edit] Chungju Lake
Chungju Lake is the country biggest multi-purpose dam that links together Chungju and its neighborhoods. It is manmade lake with the broadest space of water.
Being big, it is also clean quality lake. Woraksan Mt and Songnae valley are located nearby. Additionally, this area has cherished cave area/springs.[3]
[edit] Products
Chungju is famous for its production of apples. The biggest reason is because of large amount of daylight and high difference of temperatures. Agriculture of apple started 300 years ago from China and it was 1912 when the city officially began to plant trees. The scale is the widest in Chungcheongbuk-do.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] Reference
- ^ http://www.cj100.net/english/
- '^ 세계무술축제, '태국 무에타이의 진수 보여주다
- ^ [출발!2박 2일] 충주호, Hankook Ilbo 2003-05-29
- ^ http://www.cj100.net/sub06/?menucode=06_03_01_01_01 (kor)
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