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Seo-myeon (Korean: 서면; Hanja: 西面; lit. west side) is a major commercial center and transportation hub in Bujeon-dong, Busanjin District, Busan, South Korea. [1] The area grew from a small village in the Joseon period to a major industrial hub in the mid-20th century.
Aside from newborns being given newly popular names, many adults change their names as well, some in order to cast off birth names they feel are old-fashioned. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 844,615 people (about 1 in every 60 South Koreans) applied to change their names; 730,277 were approved.
Seomyeon Station is a station on the Busan Metro Line 1 and Line 2 located in Bujeon-dong, Busanjin District, Busan. The station is connected underground to the main Busan branch of Lotte Department Store , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Judies Taehwa, [ 3 ] Daehyun Primall, and the Seomyeon Underground Shopping Center.
Seo-myeon in South Korea may refers to Seomyeon, Busan in Busan; Seo-myeon, Yangyang County in Gangwon-do; Seo-myeon, Seocheon in Chungcheongnam-do; Seo-myeon, Chuncheon County in Gangwon-do; Seo-myeon, Suncheon in Jeollanam-do; Seo-myeon, Ulleung County in Gyeongsangbuk-do; Seo-myeon, Uljin County in Gyeongsangbuk-do; Seo-myeon, Namhae County ...
A Korean sign for Gyeongju, which translates to "congratulatory province" or "capital province". Korean place name etymologies are based upon a large linguistic background of Chinese, Japanese and Old Korean influence and history. [1] The commonplace names have multiple meanings in Korean, Chinese, and when transliterated to English as well. [2]
The name "Busan" is the Revised Romanization of the city's Korean name since the late 15th century. [11] It officially replaced the earlier McCune–Reischauer romanization Pusan in 2000. [ 12 ] [ b ] During the Japanese colonial period , the Japanese reading of the city's name was "Fuzan".
Seo-myeon is a myeon or a township in the subdivision of the Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea. It is bordered by its neighborhoods including Hyeongok-myeon and Geoncheon-eup on the east, Sannae-myeon on the south and Yeongcheon City on the west and north. Its 52.12 square kilometers are home to about 4,166 people.
Busanjin District (Korean: 부산진구; RR: Busanjin-gu) is a gu in central Busan, South Korea. It has an area of 29.7 km 2, and a population of about 410,000. The name is sometimes abbreviated locally as "Jin-gu". Busanjin District is home to a major shopping, entertainment, and business area called Seomyeon.