Samsan-dong is a ''
dong
Dong or DONG may refer to:
Places
* Dong Lake, or East Lake, a lake in China
* Dong, Arunachal Pradesh, a village in India
* Dong (administrative division) (동 or 洞), a neighborhood division in Korea
Persons
*Queen Dong (1623–1681), princes ...
'', or neighborhood, of
Nam-gu Nam-gu (), or " Southern District," is the name of a ''gu'' in several South Korean cities:
*Nam-gu, Busan
* Nam-gu, Daegu
*Nam-gu, Gwangju
*Nam-gu, Incheon
*Nam-gu, Pohang
Nam-gu is a non-autonomous district in the City of Pohang in North Gye ...
in
Ulsan
Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring ...
,
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
. Samsan literally translates as "three mountains".
[ ] It is Ulsan's downtown area.
History
*1911 Previously Jungri, Samsan, Shilli, Daehyeon-myeon
*1914 Renamed to Samsanri-ro, Ulsan-gun
*June 1, 1962 Samsan-dong, Ulsan-si (city promotion in status)
*1972 Incorporated to Daldong, Ulsan-si
*March 2, 1995 Divided into Samsan-dong, Dal-dong
*July 15, 1997 Samsan-dong, Nam-gu, Ulsan Metropolitan City (promotion in status to metropolitan city)
Schools
Samsan Elementary School
Paekhap Elementary School
Samshin Elementary School
Ulsan Gangnam Middle School
Samsan High School
See also
*
South Korea portal
References
External linksUlsan Namgu home page
Nam District, Ulsan
Neighbourhoods in South Korea
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