8-634: Jangjeon is a dong (neighborhood), in Geumjeong District , Busan , South Korea. A heavily populated district, it is located between the slopes of Geumjeongsan and the valley of the Oncheoncheon . It is bounded to the south by Oncheon-dong in Dongnae District and to the north by Guseo-dong . Due to its large population, Jangjeon-dong is divided into three "administrative dong," Jangjeon 1, 2, and 3-dong. Jangjeon-dong
16-473: A dong is the tong ( 통/統 ), but divisions at this level and below are used rarely in daily life. Cases using tong contain school districts or military services. Some dong are subdivided into ga ( 가/街 ), which are not a separate level of government but only exist for use in addresses. Many major thoroughfares in Seoul , Suwon , and other cities are also subdivided into ga . The widest legal-status dong
24-563: Is Unseo-dong in Jung District, Incheon Metropolitan City, with an area of 51.56km2 (19.91 sq mi), and Incheon International Airport occupies most of the area, and this is larger than Anyang City (58.46 km2 (22.57 sq mi)) and Gyeryong City (60.7 km2 (23.4 sq mi)). The narrowest legal-status dong is Sangdeok-dong in Jung District , Daegu Metropolitan City, with an area of 2,971m2 (0.003km2). The YouTuber iGoBart has produced
32-405: Is defined by local governments to make an office (community center). Community centers provide some administrative services such as residential/birth registration or death notification, to relief service pressure of local government. Also, electoral districts are based on administrative neighborhood. In usual cases, an administrative neighborhood is set by population of the area to match demands for
40-570: Is tightly connected to the Busan transit grid, with Busan Subway Line 1 making two stops, at Pusan National University Station and Jangjeon-dong station. Jangjeon-dong is home to Pusan National University , a major university in Busan, and to a popular shopping and restaurant district. The name jangjeon literally means "long arrows." It is believed that the original inhabitants of the Jangjeon village were arrowsmiths, making long arrow shafts from
48-470: The bamboo groves that still flourish on the slopes of Geumjeongsan. [3] Dong (administrative division) A dong ( Korean : 동 ) or neighborhood is a submunicipal level administrative unit of a city and of those cities which are not divided into wards throughout Korea . The unit is often translated as neighborhood and has been used in both administrative divisions of North Korea and South Korea . A dong is, usually,
56-530: The civil services. Because legal-status neighborhood uses historical name, recently developed (populated) area can be grouped as a single legal-status neighborhood. In such places, it can be divided into several administrative neighborhoods. Sillim-dong is a typical example for this case. For the same reason, there are some inverse cases, i.e. a single administrative neighborhood holding multiple legal-status neighborhoods. Such cases contain undeveloped suburban area, or recently declining area. The primary division of
64-551: The smallest level of urban-area division to have its own office and staff in South Korea. There are two types of dong : legal-status neighborhood ( 법정동 ) and administrative neighborhood ( 행정동 ). For land property and (old) address, legal-status neighborhood is mainly used. Unlike what the name indicates, they are not defined by any written law . Instead, most of names are came from customary law , which indicates historical names. Administrative neighborhood , however,
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