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Sacheon

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Sacheon (sä`chôn`), city (1995 pop. 113,492), South Gyeongsang (Kyongsang) prov., S South Korea, on the Korea Strait. It is a port city on Sacheon Bay, with aerospace, machinery, and metalworking industries, food processing, agriculture, fishing, and forestry, and pottery and tile making. Hallyeo Maritime National Park is nearby. The bay was the site of a Korean naval victory (1592) over the Japanese. The city was formed in 1995 by the merger of the port city of Samcheonpo and Sacheon county.


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Also scrapped were an international festival of percussion instruments in Sacheon City and an international exhibition of tea bowls in Gimhae City, both in South Gyeongsang province, organisers said.
KAI, based in the south coast city of Sacheon, is South Korea's main aerospace company and manufactures both the KT-1 basic trainer and T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic jets.
2 km upstream of Sacheon city in Gyeongsangnam-do province, was designed to prevent flooding and the intrusion of saline water from Sacheon Bay.
 
 
 
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