Uiryeong County

Uiryeong
의령군
County
Korean transcription(s)
  Hangul
  Hanja
  Revised Romanization Uiryeong-gun
  McCune-Reischauer Ŭiryŏng kun

Emblem of Uiryeong

Location in South Korea
Country  South Korea
Region Yeongnam
Administrative divisions 1 eup, 12 myeon
Area
  Total 482.95 km2 (186.47 sq mi)
Population (2004)
  Total 32,371
  Density 67.0/km2 (174/sq mi)
  Dialect Gyeongsang

Uiryeong County (Korean: 의령군Uiryeong-gun Hanja:宜寧郡) is a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.[1] It is known to be one of the least populated counties in South Korea.

In 1938, citizen of Uiryeong, Lee Byung-chull, founded Samsung in nearby Daegu.

On the evening of April 26, 1982, policeman Woo Bum-kon went on shooting rampage through several villages in the county; killing 56 people and wounding 35 others. It was the worst recorded spree killing in known history until the 2011 Norway attacks.

Transportation

Uiryeong has a convenient location as it sits between Jinju to the west and Haman/Masan/Changwon to the East. A bus runs regularly from the bus terminal in Uiryeong-Eup to all major cities in South Korea. A bus journey to Masan or Jinju takes approximately 35 minutes and 45 minutes respectively from Uiryeong bus terminal, while the journey to Busan takes 1 hour. It is also possible to take a bus directly to Seoul from Uiryeong.

The biggest problem in terms of transportation is that the intercity buses stop running to Uiryeong from the nearby cities fairly early in the evening. The last bus from Busan is 6:40 PM, from Jinju, it's 7:30 PM and from Masan, it's 9:00 PM.

Sister cities

Uiryeong is twinned with:

See also

References

Coordinates: 35°19′09″N 128°15′40″E / 35.3191666767°N 128.261111121°E / 35.3191666767; 128.261111121

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