Gunsan was a small fishing village on the
banks of the Geum River, near to where the river spills into the Yellow Sea. It
sits on the fertile western Honam plain where much rice is harvested.
Gunsan became a port in the late 19th century largely due to pressure from the
Japanese on the Koreans to ship rice to Japan.
In 1899, Gunsan Port officially opened up to international trade
