Ongjin County, Incheon

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Ongjin County, Incheon" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Ongjin 옹진군
County
Korean transcription(s)
• Hanja	甕津郡
• Revised Romanization	Ongjin-gun
• McCune-Reischauer	Ongjin-kun
Janggyeong Beach on Yeongheung Island
Flag
Divisions of Ongjin are numbered
Country	South Korea
Region	Sudogwon
Provincial level	Incheon
Administrative divisions	7 myeon
Area
• Total	172.48 km2 (66.59 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	20,456
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
• Dialect	Seoul
Website	Ongjin County Office

Ongjin County (Korean: 옹진군) is a county in Incheon Metropolitan City, South Korea. It consists of a group of islands in the Yellow Sea (West Sea).

Four of the islands, Yeonpyeong Island, Baengnyeong, Daecheong, and Socheong Islands, are very near the Northern Limit Line. They are close to the Ongjin Peninsula of South Hwanghae Province in North Korea, at a considerable distance from the nearest part of the South Korean mainland. These islands are popular destinations for tourism. In historical contexts these three islands and their smaller neighbors are sometimes known as the Sir James Hall Group after Sir James Hall, whose son Basil Hall was an early Western visitor to Korea.^[1]