City symbols are a grape mascot named 'Podong-i', Forsythia (flower), Ginkgo (tree), and eagles.

It is a twin-tower office building in the Dongan District, across the street from Anyang City Hall.

The river runs through the center of Anyang and is a common place for people to walk, jog, or ride bikes.

As a result, the Anyang Stream Watershed Management Committee for Water Quality Improvement had been established to address some of these issues.

Local elder women citizens cut out the paper slabs into blocks that were sold back to Samduck; the remaining residues from the drying process were kept and used as fire fuel by the residents during winter.

The "owner of Samduck recently donated his factory ground to the city as a gesture of compensation to the citizens of Anyang".

In the fourth year of Hyōgong, king of Silla (900), Wang Geon, a general of Gung Ye, was passing through Samsung Mountain to quell the rebellion in the Gumju (Siheung) and Gwaju (Gwacheon) areas.

Anyang itself is a Buddhist term signifying a heavenly land where unimaginable joy and freedom overflow.

[citation needed] As with most towns and cities in South Korea, Anyang has experienced tremendous urban growth during the past few decades.

[citation needed] Like most cities in South Korea, the population is made up almost entirely of ethnic Koreans.

Non-South Koreans were Chinese (4,706), Vietnamese (315), Americans (283), Filipinos (168), Japanese (147), British (21), and others including Israelis (771).

[19] In early 2010, previous Anyang mayor, Phil-woon Lee announced plans to build a 100-storey city hall.

[25] Anyang also has the country's only Singing Road, which is made from grooves cut into the ground, which driven over causes a tactile vibration and audible rumbling transmitted through the wheels into the car body.

Drivers can hear the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", and the road is intended to help motorists stay alert and awake.

[33] These are predominantly after school academies where students go to get additional study or complete homework in a variety of subject areas such as English or Maths.

The main area for these institutes is 'academy street', known locally as 'hagwon ga', which is located a few kilometres directly to the south of Anyang Central Park in Dongan Gu.

FC Anyang are a citizen team, funded by the city council along with sponsorship money from principal sponsor, Kookmin Bank.

Sporting facilities in Anyang include the Anyang sporting complex (which features a stadium for athletics and football, an indoor ice rink, a basketball stadium, and an open air and indoor swimming pool).

There are also numerous council-run outdoor basketball courts and football fields in the city of Anyang, along with those on school land.

[36] Anyang also possesses dozens of nationally recognised 'tangible assets' including Manan Bridge, and the Maaejong rock engraving of a bell from the end of the Silla period.

[37] In addition, Anyang contains the tombstone of Park Suh, a civil servant in the middle Joseon period, as well as dolmens in Pyeongchon, a stone chambered grave in Bisan dong, and a letter engraved in stone by Ji Woon Yong at Sammak Temple.

It is a celebration of life in Anyang with a citizens festival featuring plays, food and markets.

The Winter festival occurs from December to February and is focused around the indoor skating rink at the Anyang sports complex.

Anyang Central Park is situated between Pyeonchon Station and Beomgye Station, and contains a series of fountains that flow around the centre of the park with modern art sculptures alongside as part of the Anyang Art Project.

It also contains an outdoor stage which holds aerobic classes, tennis courts, a playground, a croquet lawn and various other areas for sport.

Many people believe that the power plant increases air pollution, which is already a heavy issue in Korea.

A huge redevelopment is proposed for the Manan Gu area, beginning in late 2010, with the focus on urban renewal.

The intercity bus terminal is located directly opposite Anyang Station which was first opened in January 1905.

It was rebuilt into a large, modern building, which reopened in December 2001 and is adjacent to Lotte Department Store.