Imsil County
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Imsil
| native_name = {{nobold|임실군}}
| native_name_lang = ko
| settlement_type = County
| translit_lang1 = Korean
| translit_lang1_type1 = Hangul
| translit_lang1_info1 = 임실군
| translit_lang1_type2 = Hanja
| translit_lang1_info2 = {{linktext|任|實|郡}}
| translit_lang1_type3 = {{nowrap|Revised Romanization}}
| translit_lang1_info3 = Imsil-gun
| translit_lang1_type4 = {{nowrap|McCune-Reischauer}}
| translit_lang1_info4 = Imsil-gun
| image_skyline = {{multiple image
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|image1 = Imsil Hyanggyo.jpg
|image2 = Imsil Cathedral, in Imsil County, North Jeolla Province, South Korea.jpg
|image3 = Imsil Bongcheon Station Front.jpg
}}
| image_caption = From the left: Imsil Hyanggyo, Imsil Catherdal, Bongcheon Station
| image_map = North Jeolla-Imsil.svg
| mapsize =
| map_caption = Location in South Korea
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|South Korea}}
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Honam
| population_blank1_title = Dialect
| population_blank1 = Jeolla
| area_total_km2 = 596.88
| population_total = 25,693
| population_as_of = September 2024{{cite web |url=https://jumin.mois.go.kr/|title=Population statistics |date=2024|website=Korea Ministry of the Interior and Safety}}
| population_density_km2 = 45
| parts_type = Administrative divisions
| parts = 1 eup, 11 myeon
| image_blank_emblem = Imsil logo.png
| blank_emblem_type = Emblem of Imsil
| image_flag = Flag of Imsil.svg
}}
Imsil County ({{Korean|hangul=임실군|rr=Imsil-gun}}) is a county in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. Imsil County is a county in central South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It is an area upstream of the Seomjingang River in the Noryeongsan Mountains, and there is a basin that runs southeast to Namwon. The county office is located in Imsil-eup, and the administrative district is 11 myeon, 1eup.
It is approximately 30 minutes south of Jeonju by car or bus. Domestic Korean cheese was first produced in Imsil County. Imsil County encompasses several important towns, mountains and natural areas.
Imsil-gun has 14 elementary schools and an English center.
History
=Proto–Three Kingdoms period=
{{See also|Proto–Three Kingdoms period}}
Imsil belonged to the Mahan State, as New Wunsin State.{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.imsil.go.kr/eng/index.imsil?menuCd=DOM_000000801002000000 |website=Imsil-gun}}
=Three Kingdoms period=
{{See also|Three Kingdoms period of Korea}}
The County was Inghil-gun in Baekje.
=Unified Silla Period=
=Today=
Tourism
=Imsil Cheese Village=
Imsil Cheese Village ({{langx|ko|임실치즈테마파크}}) is located near the town of Imsil (within the county of Imsil). It offers vacation programs for children and tourists to learn how to make cheese.
The cheese produced there is called Imsil cheese, following the county name. Imsil cheese is the unusual mission legacy of a Catholic priest from Belgium who took the Korean name of Ji Junghwan. He arrived in the farming village of Imsil, in the mid-1950s, when the economy was still shattered from the Korean War. He started a farmers’ milk cooperative, which eventually became the Imsil Cheese Factory. The factory still exists today and produces high-quality cheese and yogurt for the Korean market.
A pizza franchise using Imsil cheese has become a widespread business in South Korea since 2004, under the name of Imsil Cheese Pizza.{{cite web |url=http://www.imsilpizza.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-01-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112170226/http://www.imsilpizza.com/ |archive-date=2008-01-12 }} Official Page Nearby livestock farms produce the dairy products required for the manufacture of the cheese.
=Okjeongho Lake=
File:Imsilgun County 60 (16850097752).jpg
Okjeongho Lake ({{langx|ko|옥정호}}) is an artificial lake created by the construction of the Seomjingang River Dam. There is a walking trail by the lake.{{Cite web |title=Okjeongho Lake (옥정호 (물안개길)) |url=https://english.visitkorea.or.kr/svc/whereToGo/locIntrdn/locIntrdnList.do?vcontsId=93770&menuSn=351 |website=Korea Tourism Organization}} In the upper reaches of the Seomjingang River, Okjeongho Lake has a large temperature difference between night and day, so fog rises.{{Cite web |title=Okjeongho Lake |url=https://www.imsil.go.kr/eng/index.imsil?menuCd=DOM_000000802000000000 |website=Imsil-gun}}
Education
Yewon Arts University is located in Imsil.
Climate
{{Weather box
| location = Imsil (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1970–present)
| metric first = Y
| single line = Y
| Jan record high C = 16.1
| Feb record high C = 21.9
| Mar record high C = 25.1
| Apr record high C = 30.6
| May record high C = 33.8
| Jun record high C = 34.7
| Jul record high C = 37.1
| Aug record high C = 37.5
| Sep record high C = 33.4
| Oct record high C = 29.8
| Nov record high C = 25.8
| Dec record high C = 18.3
| year record high C = 37.5
| Jan high C = 3.8
| Feb high C = 6.5
| Mar high C = 12.1
| Apr high C = 18.7
| May high C = 23.7
| Jun high C = 27.1
| Jul high C = 29.1
| Aug high C = 29.8
| Sep high C = 26.0
| Oct high C = 20.6
| Nov high C = 13.4
| Dec high C = 6.0
| year high C = 18.1
| Jan mean C = -2.5
| Feb mean C = -0.3
| Mar mean C = 4.6
| Apr mean C = 10.7
| May mean C = 16.3
| Jun mean C = 20.8
| Jul mean C = 24.1
| Aug mean C = 24.4
| Sep mean C = 19.5
| Oct mean C = 12.5
| Nov mean C = 6.0
| Dec mean C = -0.4
| year mean C = 11.3
| Jan low C = -8.0
| Feb low C = -6.2
| Mar low C = -2.0
| Apr low C = 3.2
| May low C = 9.3
| Jun low C = 15.5
| Jul low C = 20.5
| Aug low C = 20.4
| Sep low C = 14.4
| Oct low C = 6.2
| Nov low C = -0.1
| Dec low C = -5.9
| year low C = 5.6
| Jan record low C = -24.4
| Feb record low C = -21.8
| Mar record low C = -13.8
| Apr record low C = -7.1
| May record low C = -0.8
| Jun record low C = 4.2
| Jul record low C = 10.6
| Aug record low C = 8.8
| Sep record low C = 2.6
| Oct record low C = -4.9
| Nov record low C = -17.0
| Dec record low C = -21.9
| year record low C = -24.4
| precipitation colour = green
| Jan precipitation mm = 28.5
| Feb precipitation mm = 36.9
| Mar precipitation mm = 53.8
| Apr precipitation mm = 83.6
| May precipitation mm = 85.9
| Jun precipitation mm = 142.4
| Jul precipitation mm = 312.0
| Aug precipitation mm = 312.1
| Sep precipitation mm = 138.3
| Oct precipitation mm = 58.1
| Nov precipitation mm = 50.7
| Dec precipitation mm = 33.3
| year precipitation mm = 1335.6
| unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
| Jan precipitation days = 9.2
| Feb precipitation days = 7.4
| Mar precipitation days = 8.7
| Apr precipitation days = 8.8
| May precipitation days = 8.8
| Jun precipitation days = 10.9
| Jul precipitation days = 16.0
| Aug precipitation days = 15.3
| Sep precipitation days = 9.1
| Oct precipitation days = 6.4
| Nov precipitation days = 8.3
| Dec precipitation days = 9.6
| year precipitation days =
| Jan snow days = 9.9
| Feb snow days = 7.2
| Mar snow days = 2.6
| Apr snow days = 0.4
| May snow days = 0.0
| Jun snow days = 0.0
| Jul snow days = 0.0
| Aug snow days = 0.0
| Sep snow days = 0.0
| Oct snow days = 0.2
| Nov snow days = 2.5
| Dec snow days = 6.7
| year snow days = 29.5
| Jan humidity = 73.4
| Feb humidity = 68.6
| Mar humidity = 65.8
| Apr humidity = 63.3
| May humidity = 66.7
| Jun humidity = 72.9
| Jul humidity = 79.3
| Aug humidity = 78.8
| Sep humidity = 76.9
| Oct humidity = 74.4
| Nov humidity = 73.5
| Dec humidity = 74.2
| year humidity = 72.3
| Jan sun = 154.3
| Feb sun = 168.8
| Mar sun = 203.1
| Apr sun = 219.8
| May sun = 234.2
| Jun sun = 179.9
| Jul sun = 148.5
| Aug sun = 169.0
| Sep sun = 175.1
| Oct sun = 190.7
| Nov sun = 155.7
| Dec sun = 143.5
| year sun = 2142.6
| Jan percentsun = 51.9
| Feb percentsun = 56.2
| Mar percentsun = 54.7
| Apr percentsun = 59.2
| May percentsun = 54.5
| Jun percentsun = 44.2
| Jul percentsun = 37.6
| Aug percentsun = 44.6
| Sep percentsun = 51.3
| Oct percentsun = 59.8
| Nov percentsun = 54.8
| Dec percentsun = 51.4
| year percentsun = 51.3
| source = Korea Meteorological Administration (snow and percent sunshine 1981–2010)
{{cite web
| 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
{{cite web
| 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
{{cite web
| 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}}
}}
Twin towns – sister cities
Imsil is twinned with:
- {{flagicon|KOR}} Gangseo-gu, South Korea
- {{flagicon|KOR}} Eunpyeong-gu, South Korea
- {{flagicon|KOR}} Busanjin-gu, South Korea
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.imsil.go.kr County government home page]
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{{Coord|35.6130555656|N|127.279444454|E|source:ruwiki_region:KR_type:city(37514)|format=dms|display=title}}