Dongducheon

Dongducheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The city, to the north of Seoul, is strategically crucial for the defense of the Korean capital. The main camps of the USA Second Infantry Division are within the city, and the division command is at Uijeongbu. Under Goguryeo, the dynasty's territory prolonged southward into Korean peninsula, and Dongducheon became a part of the dominion within the shape of naeulmae hyun a certain shape of historical village land maintaining. Later Dongducheon have become Sacheon village of Unified Silla in the North-South States Period. It changed into part of the district of Yangju in Goryeo.

In 1963, its fame become raised to that of a township, Tongducheon. In 1981, Dongducheon City become established, encompassing Yangju county. Since 1999, Dongducheon has yearly hosted the Dongducheon Rock Festival, one in all the largest rock gala's in South Korea. In 2007, the festival became held at Camp Nimble, a former US Army installation returned to South Korea. A maple pageant is held every autumn in numerous streets and elements of the metropolis.