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unusual facts about Hwaseong, Gyeonggi


Koreaceratops

This specimen was found in a sandstone block that had been incorporated into the Tando dam at Hwaseong City; the way the specimen is cut off suggests that more of it was present before quarrying.


Aijalon Gomes

For two years prior to his arrest, Gomes taught English at Chungui Middle School in Gyeonggi-do Province, South Korea, having been recruited by Footprints Recruiting for the GEPIK teaching program.

Bae Hyun-jin

Bae graduated from Sookmyung Women's University's Seoul campus with a degree in Communications and Korean Language and Literature after graduating from Dongsan High School in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

Bupyeong District

Bupyeong Metropolitan Prefecture (i.e. Buyeong Dohobu, 부평도호부) consisted of today's Bupyeong-gu, Gyeyang-gu, Seo-gu(excepting Geomdan) in Incheon, Bucheon City in Gyeonggi, and western part of Guro-gu in Seoul.

Daelim University College

The college is located in the Dongan-gu district of Anyang City, Gyeonggi province, south of Seoul, and is just across the Anyang River from Anyang Station.

Girls' Generation's Horror Movie Factory

A press conference was held at the MBC Dream Center in Ilsan, Gyeonggi-do to announce the new show.

Hwaseong

Hwasong-5, North Korean version of the Scud ballistic missile

Hwaseong Fortress, a UNESCO heritage site in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Hwasong-6, also a North Korean version of the Scud ballistic missile

Hwasong concentration camp, a political prison camp in North Hamgyong province, North Korea

Hwaseong Fortress

Hwahongmun, otherwise known as Buksumun, is the gate under which the Suwoncheon flows on entering the area encompassed by Hwaseong.

Im Kkeokjeong

Im Kkokjong (임꺽정, 林巪正, d. 1562) was born in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province.

Jungnangcheon

It is generated in the valley of Dorak Mountain of Yangju, Gyeonggi-do.

Pyeongtaek-Siheung Expressway

The Pyeongtaek-Siheung Expressway (Korean: 평택시흥고속도로; Pyeongtaek-Siheung Gosok Doro) , Also 2nd Seohaean Expressway, is a freeway in South Korea, connecting Pyeongtaek to Hwaseong, Ansan, and Siheung.

Shin Ansan University

Ansan College of Technology (also called Ansan Technical College) is a private technical college in Ansan City, which lies south of Seoul in Gyeonggi province.

Transnational Law and Business University

Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU) is a post-graduate university located in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea (20 km from Seoul), with a branch in Orry-la-Ville near Paris and a branch in construction in Maryland, USA.

Yesung

In 2009, Yesung made his musical theatre debut in Namhansanseong (lit. South Korean Mountain Fortress), which is based on the novel of the same name by Kim Hoon, which is based on the historical incident of Byeongja Horan, at the Namhansanseong in Gyeonggi-do.


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