Dong (administrative division)
| Neighborhood | |
| Hangul | 동 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 洞 |
| Revised Romanization | dong |
| McCune–Reischauer | tong |
| Administrative neighborhood | |
| Hangul | 행정동 |
| Hanja | 行政洞 |
| Revised Romanization | haengjeongdong |
| McCune–Reischauer | haengchŏngtong |
| Legal-status neighborhood | |
| Hangul | 법정동 |
| Hanja | 法定洞 |
| Revised Romanization | beopjeongdong |
| McCune–Reischauer | pŏpchŏngtong |
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A dong or neighborhood is a submunicipal level administrative unit of a city[1] 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[2] and South Korea.[3][4]
In South Korea
A dong is the smallest level of urban government to have its own office and staff in South Korea. There are two types of dong: legal-status neighborhood(법정동) and administrative neighborhood(행정동). In some cases, a single legal-status neighborhood is divided into several administrative neighborhoods. In such cases, each administrative dong has its own office and staff.[5][6][7] Administrative dongs are usually distinguished from one another by number (as in the case of Myeongjang 1-dong and Myeongjang 2-dong).
The primary division of a dong is the tong (통/統), but divisions at this level and below are seldom used in daily life. 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. Basically ga stands for a historical reason: in Korea under Japanese rule, some districts living Japanese are subdivided as machi (町, まち) and after Independence of Korea, these machi are renamed as ga.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Korea annual, Volume 1991 (37 ed.). Yonhap News Agency. 2000. p. 126. ISBN 89-7433-051-2.
- ↑ Hunter, (1999) p.154
- ↑ Nelson, (2000), p.30
- ↑ No, (1993), p.208
- ↑ 동 洞 [Dong] (in Korean). Nate / Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ 동 洞 [Dong] (in Korean). Nate / Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- ↑ 행정동 行政洞 [Haengjeong-dong (trans. Administrative dong)] (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
References
- Hunter, Helen-Louise. (1999), Kim Il-sŏng's North Korea, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0275962962
- Nelson, Laura C. (2000) Measured excess: status, gender, and consumer nationalism in South Korea, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-11616-0
- Yusuf, Shahid; Evenett, Simon J., Wu, Weiping. (2001) Facets of globalization: international and local dimensions of development World Bank Publications, pp. 226–227 ISBN 0-8213-4742-X
- No, Chŏng-hyŏn (1993) Public administration and the Korean transformation: concepts, policies, and value conflicts, Kumarian Press, ISBN 1-56549-022-3