It is generated in the valley of Dorak Mountain of Yangju, Gyeonggi-do.
This means it did belong to neither of the two surrounding counties around old Seoul - Goyang and Yangju.
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Strongly anti-US foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the Apolo Ohno Olympic controversy and the Yangju highway incident, anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached record high levels.
Im Kkokjong (임꺽정, 林巪正, d. 1562) was born in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province.
Gwannae-do included the administrative districts of Yangju, Hwangju, Gwangju, and Haeju; Jungwon-do included Chungju and Cheongju; Hanam-do replaced Gongju; Gangnam-do replaced Jeonju; Yeongnam-do replaced Sangju; Sannam-do replaced Jinju; and Haeyang-do replaced Naju and Seungju; the three other new provinces were Yeongdong-do, Panbang-do, and Paeseo-do.