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Myeong-dong [a] (Korean: 명동; lit. 'bright neighborhood') is a dong (neighborhood) in Jung District , Seoul , South Korea between Chungmu-ro , Eulji-ro , and Namdaemun-ro . Myeongdong is known for being one of Seoul's main shopping, parade route, and tourism districts. [ 1 ]
Myeong-dong Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 4. This station is located in Jung-gu, Seoul. [2] [1] Station layout. G: Street level Exit L1 Concourse:
The districts of Seoul are the twenty-five gu (districts; Korean: 구; Hanja: 區) comprising Seoul, South Korea.The gu vary greatly in area (from 10 to 47 km 2) and population (from less than 140,000 to 630,000).
Jung District (Korean: 중구; RR: Jung-gu; lit. Central District) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea.. Jung has a population of 131,452 (2013) and has a geographic area 9.96 km 2 (3.85 sq mi), making it both the least-populous and the smallest district of Seoul, and is divided into 15 dong (administrative neighborhoods).
Located in the Myeongdong neighbourhood of Jung District, Seoul, South Korea, it is the seat of the Archbishop of Seoul, Peter Chung Soon-taick. The shrine is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Immaculate Conception honored as the principal Patroness of Korea by a pontifical decree accorded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1841.
So, the Seoul Metropolitan Government used the following nine administrative dongs as a proxy to estimate the approximate number of people living in Downtown Seoul between 2000 and 2015: Gyonam, Sajik, Jongno 1.2.3.4-ga and Jongno 5.6 ga-dong of Jongno District, plus Gwanghui, Myeong, Sogong, Euljiro 3.4.5-ga, and Hoehyeon-dong of Jung District.
Namsan-dong (Korean: 남산동) is a legal dong, or neighbourhood of the Jung District, Seoul, South Korea and governed by its administrative dong, Myeong-dong. [ 1 ] See also
The street connected Namsan Mountain and Myeong-dong, both busy tourist areas that welcomed approximately seven million tourists annually, but it had been overlooked for many years, [5] having been used long ago during Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), and was the area where the Korean CIA was founded in 1961. The Mount Namsan area had become ...