Yuseong-gu, Daejeon

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Yuseong-gu
Hangul:	유성구
Hanja:	儒城區
Revised Romanization:	yuseonggu
McCune-Reischauer:	yusŏnggu
Statistics
Area:	177.16 km²
Population:	220,767^[1]
Pop. density:	1246 people/km²
Administrative divisions:	7 administrative dong

Yuseong-gu (Hangul:유성구; Hanja:儒城區) is a gu ("district") of Daejeon, South Korea, known for high tech industries, Daejeon Expo '93, Daedeok Science Valley and the Yuseong Special Tourism District.

[edit] Tourism and technology

Since the time of the Baekje Kingdom, tourists have visited Yuseong's natural springs and spas. This ultimately resulted in the creation of the Yuseong Special Tourism District. The majority of the hotels in Daejeon are situated in this area, and it is one of the commercial centers of Daejeon Metropolitan City.

To prevent centralization in Seoul, then-President Park Chung Hee concentrated the country's high tech industries in the Yuseong area in the 1970s^{[citation needed]} and the Expo '93 was held here.

In 2006, Yuseong-gu was the area of Korea with the second largest increase in population.^[2]

[edit] Notes

^ As of December 2005
^ Lee, Sangbae. "Gangnam-gu Reconstruction, Rise as 'Nucleus' of Incoming Population", Money Today, 2006-05-16. Retrieved on February 22, 2007. (in Korean) “대전 유성구가 9551명 순유입으로 2위에 올랐다.”