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Maejeon-myeon
Maejeon-myeon () is a township in Cheongdo County, North Gyeongsang, South Korea. It covers an area of . It was established in 1914 by combining three existing townships. As of 2022, Maejeon-myeon had a registered population of 3,747 residents in 2,329 households. Of these residents, 3,736 (99.7%) were Korean. The average age of residents in Maejeon-myeon was 62.3. Maejeon-myeon is divided into 20 legal ''ri''. It is home to an elementary school and to Maejeon Middle School, both of which are located in Dongsan-ri. The middle school is built on the site of the Joseon-era Maejeon stage station A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly horse riding, riding h ..., for which the township is named. Maejeon is well known for producing seedless persimmons, jujubes and hapyeong ginkgo. Tourists from nei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheongdo County
Cheongdo County (''Cheongdo-gun'') is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is connected to the national transportation grid by the Gyeongbu Line railroad and the Daegu-Busan Expressway. The seat of government is located in the center of the county, in Hwayang-eup. In the Samhan period, Cheongdo may have been the site of the small polity of . It was later absorbed into Silla, and gained its current name of "Cheongdo" in 940. The county's nine subdivisions were established in 1919. The county government moved to its current location in 1961. In 1966, the New Village Movement began in Sindo 1-ri, Cheongdo-eup. Every year Cheongdo is host to an international bullfighting festival. The slogan for Cheongdo is "Singgreen Cheongdo." Administrative divisions Cheongdo is divided into two ''eup'' and seven ''myeon'', as below. These in turn are divided into 212 ''ri'', and 668 natural villages (''jayeon burak''). Twin towns – sister cities Cheongdo is twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Gyeongsang
North Gyeongsang Province (, ) is a province in eastern South Korea, and with an area of , it is the largest province in the Korean peninsula. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, and remained a province of Korea (as Keishōhoku-dō during Japanese rule) until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea. Daegu was the capital of North Gyeongsang Province between 1896 and 1981, but has not been a part of the province since 1981. In 2016, the provincial capital moved from Daegu to Andong. History The 1,000-year-old Silla Kingdom flourished and unified the previous three kingdoms. The area was named Gyeongsang-do in 1314 during the Goryeo Dynasty. In 1896, during the Joseon Dynasty, the area was renamed Gyeongsangbuk-do as 13 roads were reorganized. The current administrative district was reorganized with the reorganization of Bu, Gun, and Myeon in 1914. Geography and climate The province is part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has Demographics of South Korea, a population of about 52 million, of which half live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the List of largest cities, ninth most populous metropolitan area in the world; other major cities include Busan, Daegu, and Incheon. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Gojoseon, Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early seventh century BC. From the mid first century BC, various Polity, polities consolidated into the rival Three Kingdoms of Korea, kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resident Registration
A resident register is a government database which contains information on the current residence of persons. In countries where registration of residence is compulsory, the current place of residence must be reported to the registration office or the police within a few days after establishing a new residence. In some countries, residence information may be obtained indirectly from voter registers or registers of driver licenses. Besides a formal resident registers or population registers, residence information needs to be disclosed in many situations, such as voter registration, passport application, and updated in relation to drivers licenses, motor vehicle registration, and many other purposes. The permanent place of residence is a common criterion for taxation including the assessment of a person's income tax. Africa South Africa South Africa introduced the '' Population Registration Act'' in 1950, which created a national population register, and required the classif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legal Ri
A ''ri'' or village is an administrative unit in both North Korea and South Korea. South Korea In South Korea, two different levels of ''ri'' exist: "legal ''ri''" () and "administrative ''ri''" (). One legal ''ri'' may be divided into multiple administrative ''ri''; this may occur due to the original legal ''ri'' being inconveniently large for purposes of local administration. Alternatively, multiple legal ''ri'' may be administered under a single administrative ''ri''. Legal ''ri'' are used in assigning land-lot numbers, which were also a key part of addresses prior to the adoption of road name addresses. Legal ''ri'' are comparatively static, while administrative ''ri'' may be modified to suit local administrative convenience based on changes in population. Although administrative ''ri'' are often named simply by adding a number to the name of the corresponding legal ''ri'', under the Local Autonomy Act a local government can give an administrative ''ri'' a completely dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Korean Local Culture
The ''Encyclopedia of Korean Local Culture'' (EKLC; ; abbreviated 향문) is an online encyclopedia operated by the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) and the Ministry of Education, which are in turn supported by the South Korean government. , it is subdivided into 230 regional encyclopedias, with 111 of them considered to be complete. The various regional encyclopedias are located at subdomains of the main "grandculture.net" domain. The encyclopedia began compilation in 2003. The first regional encyclopedia to be completed was that for Seongnam. Cost and efforts to produce these encyclopedias is shared between the South Korean government and the governments of each region covered. However, the completion and maintenance of the encyclopedias has been hampered by budgetary constraints. As an example, the Gwangju edition of the encyclopedia (; each encyclopedia is named similarly) began to be compiled in July 2019, and was completed by September 2023. At time of completion, it contai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseon
Joseon ( ; ; also romanized as ''Chosun''), officially Great Joseon (), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom was founded following the aftermath of the overthrow of Goryeo in what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul. The kingdom's northernmost borders were expanded to the natural boundaries at the rivers of Yalu River, Amnok and Tumen River, Tuman through the subjugation of the Jurchen people, Jurchens. During its 500-year duration, Joseon encouraged the entrenchment of Korean Confucianism, Confucian ideals and doctrines in Korean society. Neo-Confucianism was installed as the new state's ideology. Korean Buddhism, Buddhism was accordingly discouraged, and occasionally Buddhists faced persecution. Joseon consolidated its effective rule over the Korean peninsula and saw the he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stage Station
A stage station or relay station, also known as a staging post, a posting station, or a stage stop, is a facility along a main road or trade route where a traveller can rest and/or replace exhausted working animals (mostly horse riding, riding horses) for fresh ones, since long journeys are much faster with fewer delays when using well fed and rested mounts. Stage is the space between the places known as stations or stops — also known in British English as posts or relays. Organised long-distance land travel became known as staging or posting. Stagecoaches, post chaises, private vehicles, individual riders and the like followed the already long-established system for messengers, couriers and letter-carriers. Through metonymy the name stage also came to be used for a stagecoach alone. Posting and staging Purpose Until well into the 19th century an overland traveller anxious to reach a destination as fast as possible depended on animals. Systems of arranging a supply of fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
