Huicheon

Huicheon was a county of Joseon Korea's Pyeongan province. In 1396 it regained a separate local office after an earlier period of joint administration with Gaeju. The name changed from Huiju to Huicheon in 1413, when the court replaced the character ju in the names of many lower-ranking districts with san or cheon. This brought the county into a wider reform of local administration.

The magistrate's title changed again in 1466 to gunsu. He combined administrative, judicial and military responsibilities under the provincial governor. A teaching official served the local Confucian school before that post was later abolished. Huicheon initially shared military duties in the Ganggyedo left wing and subsequently belonged to the Yeongbyeon defence district. The eighteenth-century Yeojidoseo records a substantial supporting establishment of military officers, clerks, messengers and government slaves. Behind the county's changing titles lay an office that mobilised labour and linked this inland district to provincial government.