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Gimpo City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (163 words) |
 | For Gimpo, the film maker and associate of the K Foundation, see Alan Goodrick. |
 | Gimpo is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. |
 | Gimpo Airport (formerly Kimpo International Airport) used to be located inside the city, but is now part of Seoul. |
| Gimpo International Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (480 words) |
 | Gimpo currently has two runways (3600 m×45 m and 3200 m×60 m), two passenger terminals, and one cargo terminal. |
 | (The name "Gimpo" comes from the nearby city of Gimpo, of which the airport used to be a part.) For many years, the airport was served by the Gimpo Line, a railway line that no longer exists. |
 | In 1983, a Korean Air flight that was supposed to land here, Korean Air Flight 007, which was flying from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York to Kimpo via Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska ran into Soviet air space and was shot down. |