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Incheon
Incheon is a metropolitan city and a major seaport on the west coast of South Korea, near Seoul. Its geographical location is .Human settlement at the location goes back to the Neolithic. In modern times Incheon became important because its location on an estuary made it a good harbor; when the port was founded in 1883, the city, then called Chemulpo (hangul: , hanja: , revised: Jemulpo), had a population of only 4,700. Incheon is now home to almost 2.5 million people, and is also under the control of one of the two free economic zone authorities in Korea, aimed at attracting foreign investment; the city aims to turn itself into a financial and corporate hub along with the Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority.
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Inchon (film)
Inchon is a 1982 film directed by Terence Young about the Battle of Inchon during the Korean War. The movie was panned by reviewers as overpriced and poorly-acted. Filmed over five years, Inchon lost an estimated 44.1 million USD. One of the major financial backers of Inchon was the Unification ChurchSun Myung Moon, the church's founder, was a "Special Advisor" to the film. After hearing that the movie was backed by the Unification Church, the United States Department of Defense, which had supplied 1,500 troops as extras, withdrew support for the movie.
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Inchon
Noun
1. a port city in western South Korea on the Yellow Sea
(synonym) Incheon, Chemulpo
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) South Korea, Republic of Korea
2. a battle in the Korean War (1950); United States forces landed at Inchon
(hypernym) amphibious assault
(part-holonym) Korean War
(classification) South Korea, Republic of Korea



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