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Calling into Korea: +82 XX XXXX YYYY. The leading "0" is dropped when dialling into South Korea from abroad. Some 1566/1577/1588 telephone numbers cannot be dialed from abroad. Domestic long-distance call: 0NN (where NN is the carrier code) followed by the 0XX area code and XXXX YYYY number. See Domestic long-distance service code and Area code.
Article 10 of the Local Autonomy Act defines the standards under which a populated area may become a city: an area which is predominantly urbanised and has a population of at least 50,000; a gun which has an urbanised area with a population of at least 50,000; or a gun which has a total population of at least 150,000 and multiple urbanised areas each with a population of at least 20,000. [1]
Some parts of the city is chosen as a potential new capital for South Korea with Yeongi County. The project building new capital was changed into Sejong City. Nonsan: Seosan: Gyeryong: Dangjin: Buyeo County: Cheongyang County: Geumsan County: Hongseong County: Seocheon County: Taean County: Yesan County
Seoul was designated a "special free city" (teukbyeol jayusi; 특별자유시; 特別自由市) separate from Gyeonggi Province on August 15, 1946; it became a "special metropolitan city" on August 15, 1949. [1] Metropolitan cities were called "direct control (meaning directly-administered) city" (jikhalsi; 직할시; 直轄市) before 1995.
Currently for South Korea, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 1 special city, 6 metropolitan cities, 7 provinces, 2 special self-governing provinces, and 1 special self-governing city. All of them are province-level subdivisions. Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is KR, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South ...
A town or eup is an administrative unit in South Korea; along with township (rural), a town (urban) is one of the divisions of a county, and of some cities with a population of less than 500,000. The main town or towns in a county—or the secondary town or towns within a city's territory—are designated as towns. Towns are subdivided into ...
Postal codes in South Korea are composed of five digits. A new system of post codes was introduced on August 1, 2015. [ 1 ] The first postal code in South Korea was established on July 1, 1970, and has been revised three times: in 1988, 2000, and 2015.
Country name (South Korea) Address line (From larger to smaller division) Recipient Postal code English, in Western order English, alternative Mr. Gildong Hong Bldg. 102 Unit 304 Sajik-ro-3-gil 23 Jongno-gu, Seoul 30174 (South Korea) Mr. Gildong Hong Apt. 102-304 Sajik-ro-3-gil 23 Jongno-gu, Seoul 30174 (South Korea) Recipient