Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, is the first city in Korea to be designated as UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art. UNESCO Creative City refers to a city that uses creativity as its sustainable development strategy, and Icheon’s enhanced reputation as a ‘creative’ city is largely owed to its ‘ceramics'. Through ceramics and by developing unique Korean traditional crafts, Icheon is not only holding its place as a Creative City, but also enhancing its reputation as a world-class city of ceramics. Also, Icheon is the home of rice. The Icheon set menu with steamed rice in a ceramic bowl can be found only in Icheon. 

#Tourism
Icheon is Korea’s leading city of ceramics. In the early 16th century, pottery production was quite prevalent in Icheon that its specialties were white jade and ceramics, and Icheon became the center of pottery as potters gathered from all over the country owing to its wealth of raw materials and firewood. Currently, about 420 workshops are producing various products such as grayish-blue-powdered celadon, pottery, and sculptural ceramics, including celadon and white porcelain. Potters in Icheon value the traditional handicraft methods, which include pottery wheel throwing and firing ceramics in a wood-fired kiln. The creativity of potters, who make new creative works while sticking to the old, was decisive in being selected as a UNESCO Creative City. 
The attractions of Icheon are inseparable from pottery. One of the attractions is Ye’s Park. “Ye’s“, a term derived by combining ‘Ye’ in ‘DoYe’ (pottery) and the English letter ‘s’, is suggestive of a place filled with art, and is emerging as a landmark of Icheon. Seolbong Park, a resting place for Icheon citizens, is where the World Ceramics Expo was held in 2001. 

#Food 
The food that comes to mind when you think of Icheon is Icheon ssalbapjeongsik (Icheon rice table d'hote). It is the best set meal with Icheon rice, the specialty product of Icheon, of which you can fully experience the taste. The typical set meal with Icheon rice comprises freshly cooked steaming rice served with one or two main dishes such as ganjanggejang (soy sauce marinated crab) or dwaejigalbigui (grilled spareribs) accompanied by a variety of side dishes made with seasoned vegetables. For the first bite, you should eat just the rice so that you can taste the savory flavor of Icheon rice.
Byeotseom Mandu (straw rice-bag dumpling) is a local food of Icheon. Byeotseom Mandu, whose name means a rice bag filled with grains, is a New Year’s holiday food of Icheon where people used to pray for a good harvest of five grains. It should be noted that five different colors, yellow, orange, purple, green, and white, of Byeotseom Mandu wrappers signify the five grains. Also, the fillings of Byeotseom Mandu are made with Gegeolmu radish leaves, the native radish grown only in Icheon, and the mandu are then shaped in the form of square rice bags.

#Local Products
The local specialty of Icheon is certainly rice. Icheon rice, created by clean water, fertile soil, and the blessed climate, has long been of superior quality as it would be offered to the kings in the past. In the geography book of Joseon Dynasty, it is recorded that Icheon is a famous place for producing delicious rice, to be offered  to the king, on its vast and fertile land. Therefore, the brand of Icheon rice is ‘Imgeumnimpyo Icheon Rice’
The peaches of Janghowon in Icheon are also famous. The luxury fruit ‘Hessare Peaches’ are harvested in Janghowon-eup. The main variety is Hwangdo Peach with excellent taste and aroma. It is a peach that has long been loved by consumers because it has a sugar content of more than 17 brix in full ripeness. Icheon holds the Sansuyu (corni) Festival every year in time for the blooming of spring flowers over the whole area of Sansuyu Dulle-gil Trail. Icheon is covered with yellow flowers in early spring, and embroidered with red fruits in autumn. Icheon is that much well known as a producer of Sansuyu of high quality.