Together with Yeoju, Icheon is known as a center of South Korean ceramic manufacturing and is a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art.

In 2016, the city will connect into the Seoul Metropolitan Subway via Yeoju Line's Icheon Station.

The Icheon Ceramics Village features 300-plus ceramics-making firms in the area of Sugwang-ri, Sindun-myeon, Saeum-dong, and a popular visitor attraction.

Potters have researched traditional methods and revived the manufacture of ceramics in the style of Goryeo celadon and Joseon white porcelain here.

[8] Icheon was designated as a UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art, in  in 2010.