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Santa Clara
Friendship City -
1 Friendship City: Icheon, South Korea
• Icheon: 178.1 sq mi with over 220,000 people
• Icheon ceramics go back to the Bronze Age
• UNESCO designated Icheon as "City of Crafts
and Folk Art" on Creative Cities Network in 2010
• Ceramic Festival held at Yes Park in Icheon
2 POST MEETING MATERIAL
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Delegation Members
• Santa Clara • cheon
• Dr. Eun Hee Koo • Mayor Kyung Hee Kim
• Chairperson of Board of the • Mayor of Icheon
Directors of the Korean • Da-min (Janet) You
Language and Culture • Chief Staff
Foundation (KLACF) • Eun Jung Kim
• Shiv Dagar • Supervisor of Education
• Santa Clara Unified School
District Student Senate
Alumni
• Kevin Park
• Santa Clara Sister Cities
Association, Council Liaison
3 Itinerary / Schedule
• 24 April 2025 • 26 April 2025
• King Sejong's Tomb • Simmons Terrace
• ShinLeuk Buddhist Temple • Sagimakgol (Ceramic
• Sister Cities welcome dinner Village) visit
• 25 April 2025 • Pottery making experience
• 27 April 2025
• Mayor Meeting
• Mutual Gift Exchange • Icheon Cerapia, City
Icheon Office of Education Museum
• Superintendent and school • Turtle Performance
commissioners • 28 April 2025
• Festival Opening Ceremony • Farewell breakfast
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King Sejong's Tomb
5 ShinLeuk Sa (Temple)
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Sister Cities Welcome Dinner
Welcome Reception for the Delegation
of Foreign Exchange Cities
• 012: 2025 4 24(91
Mayor Meeting & Mutual Gift Exchange
Welcome to Icheon!
13911 We welcome you with open arms!
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Mayor Meeting & Mutual Gift Exchange
• 4 Countries • Limoges, France
° 7 cities • Seto, Japan
• 31 guests • Koka, Japan
• Many ceramics relationships • Santa Fe, USA
• Some over 30 years old • Santa Clara, USA
• All delegation members Jingdezhen, China
• Gifts to all Sister Cities
Weifang, China
9 Mayor Meeting & Mutual Gift Exchange
Welcome to Icheon!
We welcome you with open arms!
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Office of Education
• Kim Eun Jung • Logistics
• Superintendent • Time difference
• Virtual Exchange • Korean vacation starts in
• Zoom or Google Meet July
• Physical visits afterward • Meet once or twice a week • Gyeonggi-do board wants to • Sat. night/Sun. morning
do international exchanges • Possible classes
• Project-based language • Language/culture classes
• Technology/science
learning
• Movie/TV exchange
Classes vs. Clubs
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Visiting Gyeonggido Icheon Office of Education Warmest Welcome to Santa Clara Officials 13 Icheon Ceramic Festival 2025
• Over 1000 attendees
• Mayor and Council
• Mayor Kim Kyung Hee
Park Myoung Seo, Chairperson of City Council
Song Seok-jun, National Assembly member
• Heo Won, County Council member
• Special Operatic Performances
• International Sister Cities participation
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Ceramic Festival Opening Ceremony
15 Ceramic Exhibition
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Pottery with Master Kim Chang Seb
17 Traditional Turtle Folk Play (O|$7E=
Co Icheon Turtle Play Preservation Society
2ATL
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Icheon Cerapia Ceramic Museum
19 Democracy Movement Exhibition Hall
Korea Democratization Movemen
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welcome Party!
POST MEETING MATERIAL
(dubata Yakushi Temple) bazen meditation
visit to
lighthouse
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sweets making
workshop ink dying
Moming
sghtseeing
visit to city hall
Bumo Taisha
Lion Dance
visiting schools
free time
THANK
YOU!