Ulleung County

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Ulleung County
Hangul 울릉군
Hanja 鬱陵郡
Revised Romanization Ulleung-gun
McCune-Reischauer Ullŭng-gun
Statistics
Area 72.518 km² (27.999 sq mi)
Population 10,426
Population density 143.8 /km² (372 /sq mi)
Administrative divisions 1 eup, 2 myeon
Location map
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Ulleung County (Ulleung-gun) is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It consists mainly of the island of Ulleung-do, but is held to cover a total of 44 islands, including Liancourt Rocks (Dokdo), which is contested by Japan. All of these islands lie within the Sea of Japan (East Sea).

Administratively, the county is divided into 1 eup and 2 myeon: Ulleung-eup (including Liancourt Rocks), Buk-myeon, and Seo-myeon. These in turn are divided into 10 legal ri, those into 25 administrative ri, and at the most basic level the county is held to contain 56 "natural villages."[1]

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[edit] History

At the year of 512, Jijeung of Silla conquered Usan-guk which was the original nation in Ulleung-do. After a downfall of Silla, Goryeo naturally took the title of Ulleung. In 930, 13th year of Taejo of Goryeo, he granted local people bringing a tribute.

Hyeonjong of Goryeo sent his ambassador to islands for recovering ruined farming land in 1012.

[edit] Symbols

  • Tree : Silver Magnolia
  • Flower : Camelliar Flower
  • Bird : Wood Pigeons

[edit] Location

It is located in the middle of the Sea of Japan between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. There are two main ports that provide ferries to Ulleung and Dokdo: Pohang Port and Mukho Port. These two ports offer regular shipping service.[2]

[edit] Festival

Ulleung County is one of the most snow-falling place in all of Korea. Using this feature, the Snowflower Festival was newly introduced in 2008. In 2007, Ulleung had lot of snow, up to 42cm (16.5in) around coastlines and 105cm (around 3ft 5in) in the Nari Basin.[3] In fact, the county did not host its festival before 2006 as snowfall was too little.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ulleung County Government [1]
  2. ^ http://www.ulleung.go.kr/Ullung_English/sub1_05.html
  3. ^ Nice to see you, Snow! 눈꽃축제 울릉 반갑다! 폭설 http://www.imaeil.com/sub_news/sub_news_view.php?news_id=2674&yy=2008
  4. ^ Ulleung county worries 2 year long lack of snowfall <설국(雪國) 울릉도 2년째 눈 부족 '속타네'> 연합뉴스 2008-01-14 http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=103&oid=001&aid=0001892877

[edit] External links

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