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Hannam-dong () is a wealthy dong (neighborhood) of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. It has been portrayed continuously in South Korea's popular culture as an oasis of wealth and luxury, thus becoming the subject of numerous domestic films, television series, and popular music references.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Hannam-dong
Settlement.translit_lang1
Korean
Settlement.translit_lang1_type
Hangul
Settlement.translit_lang1_info
한남동
Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
Hanja
Settlement.translit_lang1_info2
Hannam-dong
Settlement.translit_lang1_info3
Hannam-tong
Settlement.translit_lang2_type
Hangul
Settlement.translit_lang2_type1
Hanja
Settlement.image_caption
Hannam-dong Community Service Center
Settlement.image_map
Hannamdong-yongsangu.png
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
South Korea
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.seat_type
Capital
Settlement.parts_style
para
Settlement.leader_title
Mayor
Settlement.area_total_km2
2.98

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3.01
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Commons category
Hannam-dong
McCune–Reischauer romanization
Hannam-tong
Revised Romanization
Hannam-dong
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Hannam-dong () is a wealthy dong (neighborhood) of Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. It has been portrayed continuously in South Korea's popular culture as an oasis of wealth and luxury, thus becoming the subject of numerous domestic films, television series, and popular music references.

Initially not included within the Yongsan ward, during the Japanese colonial period it was a small hamlet called Han River Village (한강리/) within the Hanji township (한지면/), Goyang County (고양군/) and lying close to the Han River.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hannam-dong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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