Myeongil-dong

Myeongil-dong
Korean transcription(s)
• Hangul	명일동
• Hanja	明逸洞
• Revised Romanization	Myeongil-dong
• McCune–Reischauer	Myongil-tong
Country	South Korea
Area
• Total	1.58 km2 (0.61 sq mi)
Population (2001)
• Total	51,354
• Density	32,503/km2 (84,180/sq mi)

Myeongil-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Gangdong-gu in Seoul, South Korea.

History

The name of Myeongil was named after 'Myeongil-won' during Goryeo Dynasty in the 10th century. Myeongil-won was an accommodation facilities and duty station of renting or transferring horses for the Public officials who go a business trip. In modern times, Myeongil-dong was actually a part of Myeongil-ri, Gucheon-myeon, Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do Province, and then be included into Seoul in 1963. Even nowadays, the street of Gucheonmyeon-gil still exists. From the late 1970s to mid-1980s, large scale of falm and orchard were renovated into huge apartments complex built by Korea National Housing Corporation (currently Korea Land & Housing Corporation), Samick, Woosung, Hanyang and Hyundai Engineering and Construction and developed as one of new town in Seoul, along with Mok-dong and Sanggye-dong in the 1990s. In 1995, Seoul Subway Line 5 was passed through this area stopping at Godeok Station, Myeongil Station and Gubeundari Station. Currently, Myeongil-dong is well known for the location of Myungsung Presbyterian Church, E-mart Myeongil branch, Home plus Gangdong branch and neighborhood of Hanyoung Foreign Language High School.

Area information

The current postal code of Myeongil-dong is 134-070. 134 is for Gangdong-gu and 070 is for Myeongil-dong.

See also

• Administrative divisions of Gangdong-gu
• Administrative divisions of Seoul
• Administrative divisions of South Korea

External links

• Gangdong-gu official website
• Gangdong-gu map at the Gangdong-gu official website
• (Korean) Gangdong-gu map
• (Korean) The Myeongil 1 dong Resident office