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South Korea uses an open dialing plan with a total length (including 0) of 9 to 11 digits and, within city, subscriber numbers 7 to 8 digits long. Dialing from mobile phones to any type of phone except 010 numbers, the area code must be included.
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]
A city with a population of over 500,000 (such as Suwon, Cheongju, Cheonan and Jeonju) is considered as a specific city, which can set non-autonomous districts(gu). An administrative city does not have a city council and the mayor of the city is appointed by the provincial governor.
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 ...
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.
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
Seongnam (Korean: 성남; Korean pronunciation: [sʰʌŋ.nam]) is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon [2] and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million.