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Iksan

Iksan (익산) is a city of 307,000 people (2016) in North Jeolla, with large farming plains and several remnants of Baekje dynasty. Wikivoyage

Population 270,758 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in South Korea

Visas and entry What your passport needs for South Korea

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Iksan. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Iksan Jewelry Festival

    April, October

    You can buy jewelry at reasonable prices as well as watch 60 jewelry companies' colorful jewelry and heartfelt works.

    Official site

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Iksan); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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