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Daegu Metro Line 2
Daegu Metro Line 2 is the second rapid transit line in the South Korean city of Daegu. It is operated by the Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation. The line first began running from Munyang to Sawol on 18 October 2005, a distance of . The line had been scheduled to open some years earlier, but fallout from the IMF crisis of the late 1990s caused delays in construction. On 19 September 2012, the extension from Sawol to Yeongnam University opened. Daegu Metro Line 2 will be expanded from Munyang Station to Seongju County as compensation of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Deployment. Stations See also * Daegu Metro Line 1 * Transport in South Korea Transportation in South Korea is provided by extensive networks of railways, highways, bus routes, ferry services and air routes that traverse the country. South Korea is the third country in the world to operate a maglev train, which is an automa ... * Daegu Metro Line 3 External linksDaegu Metropolitan Transit Corpora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea Subway Logo
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and (, ) refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja never underwent any major reforms, they are mostly resemble to ''kyūjitai'' and traditional Chinese characters, although the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters and as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters. In Japan, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalseo District
Dalseo District (Dalseo-gu) is a district in western Daegu, South Korea. It borders Dalseong-gun on the north, south, and west, and Seo-gu and Nam-gu on the east. It has a population of about 610,000, and an area of 62.27 square kilometers. The population rose dramatically in the 1990s, and has been approximately level since 2000. Subdivisions * Bolli-dong *Bon-dong * Dowon-dong *Duryu-dong (3 administrative dong) * Gamsam-dong * Igok-dong (2 administrative dong) * Janggi-dong * Jincheon-dong * Jukjeon-dong * Sangin-dong (3 administrative dong) * Seongdang-dong (2 administrative dong) *Sindang-dong *Songhyeon-dong (2 administrative dong) * Wolseong-dong (2 administrative dong) * Yongsan-dong (2 administrative dong) Education * Sangin High School (2001) Notable people * Song Hye-kyo, actress * Bona, singer (WJSN) * Kim Dong-han, singer ( WEi) See also *Subdivisions of South Korea South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
