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Yeongdeungpo District ( Korean : 영등포구; RR : Yeongdeungpo-gu) is an administrative district in southwest Seoul, South Korea. Although the origin of the name is uncertain, the first two syllables are thought to be from " yeongdeung " (靈登) or "divine ascent", a shamanic rite. [2] The third syllable is " po ", representing the bank of a ...
This is Yeongdeungpo-gu Council. Local Government System of KOREA. Since the foundation of the Republic of Korea Government, the first local council was organized through the election of council members in the units of si, eup and myeon on April, 1952 as the Local Government Act as of July 4 th 1949 was first enacted and proclaimed, but the Military Takeover Committee's decree No.4 as of May ...
At that time, Japanese nobles who settled in Yeongdeungpo-eup opposed the incorporation of Gyeongseong-bu and insisted on the promotion of Yeongdeungpo-bu. At this time, Yeongdeungpo was preparing to grow into an industrial city and become a self-sufficient city, and the town level was also trying to come up with its own urban planning.
The earliest historical references to Yeongdeungpo were in the 1870s when it was considered to be the main port used in the defence of the city of Seoul. The opening of the Gyeongin Line in 1899 and the Gyeongbu Line 1905, the County Office of Siheung-gun was relocated to Yeongdeungpo and area became a major hub for transportation and commerce. [3]
In 1936, Gyeongseong expanded itself as it annexed Yeongdeungpo from Siehung County (Now Siehung City) and recombined some parts of former Gyeongseong districts (Sungin, Yeonghee, etc.) from Goyang County.
While the relationship between the military government and the city hall was good after Hyung-min Kim, who had studied abroad in the US, became mayor on the recommendation of Major General Lerch, the conflict between the mayor, who called for the elimination of dong associations, and the alliance of dong associations had a negative impact on ...
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Yeongdeungpo A (Korean: 영등포구 갑) is a constituency of the National Assembly of South Korea. The constituency consists of portions of Yeongdeungpo District, Seoul. As of 2020, 187,997 eligible voters were registered in the constituency. The constituency was created in 1988 from the Yeongdeungpo constituency.
