Yeongcheon is a center of medicinal herb distribution in Korea and is well developed in oriental medicine as well. 30 percent or 470 types of herbs are traded here. Therefore, you can find all kinds of medicinal herb. Recently, industrializing herbal medicine business has been selected as one of the new vitality businesses. This project has become the growth engine industry along with herb specialized zone project.

The biggest medicinal herbs market in the nation: 7,500 ton equivalent to 57 billion won a year The city has been famous for the curing paralysis with well developed oriental medicine.

Status of the oriental herb medicine related industry

Total	Herb market		Shop for preparing medical decoctions	Herb medical clinic		Pharmaceutical company	Hebal food manugacturer
	Wholesaler	Herbalist		Oriental medicine clinic	Dispensary of herb medicine
302	34	118	70	31	13	16	20