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Bucheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Bucheon is a satellite city of Seoul, 25 km away. It is sandwiched between Incheon and Seoul. Manufacturing operations are located in the city.

Bucheon promotes itself as the cultural centre of the Seoul Metropolitan Area. The Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestrais located there and an annual international film festival is held in July, called the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFAN.

Bucheon's institutions of higher education include: Bucheon Robot park, Bucheon College, Yuhan College, Catholic University of KoreaBucheon campus, and Seoul Theological University.

Sports in Bucheon

Bucheon FC 1995 was founded in 2007. It is a member of the Challengers League in Korea. Their homefield is Bucheon stadium (부천 종합 운동장). There are a number of martial-arts private schools in Bucheon, including hapkido, taekwondo and kumdo. One taekwondo gym (태권도장) is Jung Ang (중앙) Taekwondo that is near Jung Ang Park (중앙공원) and City Hall.

[edit]Shopping

There are a number of markets in Bucheon, including the traditional market that runs along the south side of Bucheon Station, and a smaller traditional market that is located between Songnae Station and Jungdong Station. Bucheon Station has an underground shopping center, a small Starbucks, and an E-Mart with a small Kyobo Book store on the top floor.

In the Jung Dong area there is a Lotte Department store (formally GS Square) with a HomePlus located just across the street. On the Jung Dong and Sang Dong cusp there are a number of shopping places including the Hyundai Department Store, E-mart, and UPLEX (formally known as "The Mall"). UPLEX has a CGV movie cinema. The main Bucheon intercity bus terminal is attached to a shopping center called Newcore and it has a grocery store called Kim's Club located on the ground floor. There is also a movie cinema called Primus (프리머스) located in Newcore. There is also a large HomePlus located beside Newcore with a Save Zone shopping center opposite it.

Songnae Station has a Toona Shopping Mall, which mostly sells clothing. Yeokgok Station has a Homeplus. There is also a Homeplus in Northern Bucheon, nearer to Bucheon Stadium.

[edit]Bars and restaurants

The busiest areas for bars and restaurants are located by Bucheon Station, Lotte Department Store (formally GS Square), and Hyundai Department Store.

There are a few foreign food restaurants and bars in Bucheon such as Nicolia (located in Jung Dong) and 2 bars near Hyundai department store called The Park and Rhythm and Booze.^[3] Both bars are popular with the local expat community and both have events to celebrate various foreign holidays. They both have pool tables and dart boards, live music, DJs, and sports events on TV.

There are also two Indian and Nepalese restaurants; Tandoor is located in Jung Dong and Annapurna located near Bucheon Station.

There are few local cafe or restaurants providing english menu, or clerks who can speak english. one of them is Cafe Mosaic^[4], located near Bucheon University, famous with hand-made pizza and burgers with various drinks.

[edit]Transportation

Bucheon has an extensive bus network that connect it to Seoul, Incheon and other surrounding cities. The Seoul Subway system has a line (Line #1)that runs through Bucheon. There are currently two stations within Bucheon City; Bucheon St.,and Songnae St. There is a new subway line (line #7) that will add six more stations within Bucheon but these stations are not operational at this moment.

[edit]Religion

There are a number of churches in Bucheon, including a Full Gospel Church near Lotte Department Store and Onnuri Church in Sang Dong. Evangelism and mission is a key expression of Christianity in the Bucheon churches.