Punggi
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Punggi-eup () is a town (eup) in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. At the 2020 census, Punggi-eup had a population of 11,546, down from 14,270 in 2005.
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Punggi-eup () is a town (eup) in Yeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. At the 2020 census, Punggi-eup had a population of 11,546, down from 14,270 in 2005.
==History== The name Punggi combines characters from Eunpung () and Gicheon (), two older place names in the area, and dates to the Goryeo dynasty. During the Joseon period, Punggi was the seat of Punggi County. In 1542, the county magistrate Chu Sebung founded Sosu Seowon, the first seowon (private Confucian academy) in Korea, in nearby Sunheung-myeon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punggi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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