Gil-dong

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Gil-dong
Korean transcription(s)
• Hangul	길동
• Hanja	吉洞
• Revised Romanization	Gil-dong
• McCune–Reischauer	Kil-tong
Gil-dong Community Service Center
Country	South Korea
Area
• Total	2.17 km2 (0.84 sq mi)
Population  (2001)[1]
• Total	50,568
• Density	23,303/km2 (60,350/sq mi)

Gil-dong is a dong, neighbourhood of Gangdong-gu in Seoul, South Korea.^[1][2]

Exit 1 leads to many different love motels, hoffs, and norae bangs. In this direction it is about 2 km to the Han River.

Exit 2 and 3 lead to the post office and a large Korean market. Along the main road on this side of the street, there are retailers and many Korean restaurants. There are also many dentists and norae bangs.

On the same street as the post office is a typical outdoor Korean market, made up of mostly fruit, vegetable, fish and ddok sellers. It has become more gentrified lately and shops such as "The Face Shop" have moved in. This market runs the length of gil-dong on this back street. This area back from the main road is made up of many small one-way streets with many villas and traditional Korean houses lining them.

Gil-dong has the feel of an older, poorer Korean neighbourhood. There are many families and people riding bikes and buying groceries. The area is starting to change, though, and newer high rises are being built up near the Gildong-Gangdong intersection.

The area has relatively few hagwons, and hardly any foreigners live here.

History[]

Gil-dong is geographically located far away from the Han River, so the natives believe this area is easy to be settled and safe to avoid any damage from storm and flood, based on Feng shui Theory. In 1995, Seoul Subway Line 5 was passed through this area stopping at Gil-dong Station. On the area of Gil-dong, Gangdong Public Library, Sinmyung Middle School, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital of Hallym University and a Leadership Training Institute of Doosan Group named Yeongangwon is located.^[3]

Area information[]

The current postal code of Gil-dong is 134–010. 134 is for Gangdong-gu and 010 is for Gil-dong.

Notable people from Gil-dong[]

• Choi Ye-na (Hangul: 최예나), singer, rapper, dancer, MC and K-pop/J-pop idol, member of K-pop/J-pop girlgroup Iz*One.

See also[]

• Administrative divisions of Gangdong-gu
• Administrative divisions of Seoul
• Administrative divisions of South Korea

References[]

External links[]

• Gangdong-gu official website
• Gangdong-gu map^{[permanent dead link]} at the Gangdong-gu official website
• (in Korean) Gangdong-gu map
• (in Korean) The Gil 1-dong Resident office

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