Iksan

Iksan is a town and most important railway junction in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. The town center and railway junction became formerly referred to as but merged with Iksan County Iksan-gun in 1995. The railway junction is placed on the point wherein Jeolla, Janghang and Gunsan Lines meet the Honam Line and is served through common educate provider to from Seoul, Daejeon, Gwangju, Mokpo, Jeonju, Suncheon, and Yeosu. Iksan become as soon as the capital of the historical Baekje Kingdom. Temples built then are nonetheless status. Iksan has always been an critical shipping middle. After the Iri educate station explosion in 1977, Iksan fell into a kingdom of decline. However, the city's train station was later rebuilt, and it became the junction of three rail strains named above.

It now offerings KTX and Saemaul trains in addition to common bus traces. Today, Iksan is all over again a thriving town. Jeonbuk National University Iksan campus earlier than, it changed into Iksan National College, the Won Buddhism Graduate School, Wonkwang Health Science College, and Wonkwang University are all placed in Iksan. This metropolis is known as “The City of Jewelry." The Iksan Jewelry Museum opened in May 2002 subsequent to a Dinosaur museum.