Refrigerator having drawer

1. A drawer for a refrigerator, configured to be pushed into or pulled out of a storage compartment of the refrigerator, comprising:

a bottom surface, and a vertical wall including a front wall, a rear wall and opposite sidewalls extending upward from a periphery of the bottom surface,

wherein the interior of the drawer is divided into a plurality of receiving spaces to receive food,

wherein any one of the plurality of receiving spaces receives an ice-making unit to make ice,

wherein the front wall defining the receiving space, in which the ice-making unit is received, is provided with an ice-making unit entrance/exit opening to allow the ice-making unit to be pushed into or pulled out of the receiving space,

wherein the ice-making unit includes an ice-making tray in which ice is made, and an ice receptacle to store the ice made in the ice-making tray, and

at least one of the ice-making tray and the ice receptacle is slidably pushed into or pulled out of the receiving space through the ice-making unit entrance/exit opening.

2. The drawer according to claim 1 , further comprising a tray to cover an upper side of the receiving space in which the ice-making unit is received.

3. The drawer according to claim 2 , wherein the tray is supported on an upper end of the vertical wall of the drawer in a sliding movable manner.

4. The drawer according to claim 1 , wherein the drawer is provided with a cold air inlet hole, through which cold air is supplied into the ice-making unit.

5. The drawer according to claim 4 , wherein the cold air inlet hole is provided at the rear wall.

6. The drawer according to claim 1 , wherein the ice-making tray includes a frame having open upper and lower sides, an ice-making container rotatably placed in the frame, in which ice is made, and a rotation grip provided at a front surface of the frame and connected to the ice-making container to rotate the ice-making container.

7. A refrigerator comprising:

a storage compartment including a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment;

a door to open or close the storage compartment;

a drawer provided to be pushed into or pulled out of the storage compartment and serving to receive food therein, the drawer being arranged in the freezing compartment;

a partition to divide the interior of the drawer into a plurality of independent receiving spaces;

an ice-making unit received in any one of the plurality of receiving spaces and serving to make ice; and

an ice-making unit entrance/exit opening provided in a portion of a vertical wall of the receiving space in which the ice-making unit is received, to allow the ice-making unit to be pushed into or pulled out of the receiving space, the ice-making unit including an ice-making tray in which ice is made, and an ice receptacle to store the ice made in the ice-making tray,

wherein at least one of the ice-making tray and the ice receptacle is slidably pushed into or pulled out of the receiving space through the ice-making unit entrance/exit opening.

8. The refrigerator according to claim 7 , wherein a cold air inlet hole, through which cold air is supplied into the ice-making unit, is provided in a wall of the drawer defining the receiving space in which the ice-making unit is received.

9. The refrigerator according to claim 8 , wherein the ice-making unit further includes a cold air guide cover placed on the ice-making tray.

10. The refrigerator according to claim 8 , wherein the drawer includes a tray to cover an upper side of the receiving space in which the ice-making unit is received.

11. The refrigerator according to claim 10 , wherein the tray is supported on an upper end of the drawer in a sliding movable manner.

12. The refrigerator according to claim 7 , wherein the ice-making tray includes a frame, an ice-making container rotatably placed in the frame, in which ice is made, and a rotation grip provided at a front surface of the frame and rotatably linked to the ice-making container.

13. The refrigerator according to claim 7 , wherein the ice-making unit is a manual icemaker in which ice is separated from the ice-making tray via distortion of the ice-making tray.

14. A refrigerator comprising:

a freezing compartment;

a drawer installed in the freezing compartment in a sliding movable manner and having a bottom surface and a vertical wall provided at a front surface thereof with an ice-making unit entrance/exit opening, the drawer internally defining an ice-making unit receiving space divided by a partition to receive the ice-making unit therein; and

an ice-making unit including an ice-making tray to make ice and an ice receptacle to store the ice discharged from the ice-making tray via distortion of the ice-making tray,

wherein the ice-making unit includes an ice-making unit housing inserted into the ice-making unit receiving space, and the ice-making tray and the ice receptacle are installed in the ice-making unit housing in a sliding movable manner so as to be pushed into or pulled out of the ice-making unit receiving space through the ice-making unit entrance/exit opening.

15. The refrigerator according to claim 14 , wherein a cold air discharge tube protrudes from a rear wall of the freezing compartment and extends through the drawer and the ice-making unit housing so as to be located adjacent to the ice-making tray.

16. The refrigerator according to claim 15 , wherein the ice-making unit housing includes a hexahedral body having a first opening provided at a front surface thereof to correspond to the ice-making unit entrance/exit opening, a second opening provided at a rear surface thereof, through which the cold air discharge tube penetrates, and a plurality of cold air passage holes perforated in a periphery thereof.

17. The refrigerator according to claim 14 , wherein the bottom surface is provided with an insertion rib extending in a transversal direction of the drawer such that the partition is fixedly inserted in the insertion rib, and the partition is provided with a hook configured to surround an upper end rim of the vertical wall.