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unusual facts about Yongsan-gu



Hangang Bridge

It connects the districts of Yongsan-gu to the north and Dongjak-gu to the south, and crosses over the artificial island of Nodeulseom.

Lee Wan

Lee enlist for mandatory military service on 12 July 2010, at the Nonsan military training camp for five weeks of basic training followed by active-duty soldier, for 21 months, with the Defense Media Agency of the Ministry of National Defense in Yongsan-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

Outer old Seoul

In 1914, most of outer old Seoul, excepting small neighbourhoods of Changsin and Sungin, some eastern part of Mapo and the west of Yongsan, was annexed into Goyang county by the Japanese colonial government as a political colonial scheme to minimise colonial Seoul or then Gyeongseong-bu (경성부).

Yongsan District

Yongsan International Business District, a project propelled by Seoul Metropolitan Government to enhance its international competitiveness, is one of the world’s largest composite complexes whose total floor area is 5.6 times that of Roppongi Hills in Japan and more than two times that of Canary Wharf in the United Kingdom.


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