Buk District () is a district in northwestern

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

, South Korea. It adjoins Chilgok County on the north. The area is 93.99 km². The population is about 414,883. Buk District was first created as an office of Daegu in 1938, during the period of Japanese rule. It was raised to the status of a district in 1963. For most of the twentieth century, Buk District was purely an administrative division of Daegu, without any local autonomy. The first district council was inaugurated in 1991, and the first district head was elected in 1995, as part of nationwide local government reforms.

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and Yeungjin College are located in Buk District.

History

During the

Silla Silla (; Old Korean: wikt:徐羅伐#Old Korean, 徐羅伐, Yale romanization of Korean, Yale: Syerapel, Revised Romanization of Korean, RR: ''Seorabeol''; International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) was a Korean kingdom that existed between ...

period, it belonged to Daegu and palgeori prefectures, and during the Later

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, it belonged to Daegu and

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. During the

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period, it was located on the border of Daegu. In January 1963, it was upgraded to the status of Buk District. In 1981, as Daegu rose to a direct city, its status was raised to Buk District, Daegu.

Administrative divisions

Buk-gu administers 23 '' dong'': *Goseong-dong () *Chilseong-dong () *Chimsan 1-dong () *Chimsan 2-dong () *Chimsan 3-dong () *Nowon-dong () *Sangyeok 1-dong () *Sangyeok 2-dong () *Sangyeok 3-dong () *Sangyeok 4-dong () *Bokhyeon 1-dong () *Bokhyeon 2-dong () *Daehyeon-dong () *Geomdan-dong () *Mutaejoya-dong () *Gwanmun-dong () *Taejeon 1-dong () *Taejeon 2-dong () *Guam-dong () *Gwaneum-dong () *Eumnae-dong () *Dongcheon-dong () *Gugu-dong ()

Education

Kyungpook National UniversityTaegu Science UniversityDaegu Health CollegeKyungWoon University Daegu Campus

Amenities

Bukbu Library is municipal library that is located in Buk District. The library opened 24 November 1983. The number of books is total 250,956; that of papers is 31,997. Gususan Library consists of one basement floor and three floors above the ground. It is a district library with more than 100,000 books and 544 seats. The district contains the traditional market Chilseong Market.

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References

External links

Buk District homepage
Districts of Daegu {{Daegu-geo-stub