Hwaseong City
Hangul:	화성시
Hanja:	華城市
Revised Romanization:	Hwaseong-si
McCune-Reischauer:	Hwasŏng-si
Statistics
Area:	688 km²
Population:	286,736 (2004)[1]
Pop. density:	340.4 people/km²
Administrative divisions:	3 eup, 11 myeon, 1 dong

Hwaseong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It has the largest area of farmland of any city or county in Gyeonggi province. [2] Seoul Subway Line 1 passes through Hwaseong, stopping at Byeongjeom Station. Famous people from Hwaseong include soccer player Cha Bum-Kun. Official logo of Hwaseong city, South Korea. ... Hangul also refers to a word processing application widely used in Korea. ... It has been suggested that Sino-Korean be merged into this article or section. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... World map of the population density in 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Image File history File links Map_Hwaseong-si. ... Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 1 Special City (Teukbyeolsi), 6 Metropolitan Cities (Gwangyeoksi), and 9 Provinces (Do). ... Gyeonggi is the most populous province in South Korea. ... Seoul Subway Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway links central Seoul, South Korea to Uijeongbu Bukbu Station in the northeast, Guro and Incheon Stations in the southwest, and Suwon and Cheonan Stations in the south. ... Cha Bum-keun, the free-scoring Korean forward, is widely regarded as the best footballer ever to come out of Asia. ...

The area is famous for being the site of South Korea's first known serial killings when 10 murders - presumably by the same killer - took place there between the years of 1986 to 1991.[3] The killer was never caught. A dramatization of the case, Memories of Murder was made by Bong Joon-ho in Korea in 2003. Memories of Murder is a South Korean film based on the true story of the countrys first serial killings that occurred between 1986 and 1991. ... Bong Joon-ho (봉준호) (b. ... Korea (한국, Hanguk, or 조선, Chosŏn, see below) is a civilization and geographical area situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, bordering China (PRC) to the northwest and Russia to the northeast, with Japan situated to the southeast across the Korea Strait. ...

See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• List of cities in South Korea
• Geography of South Korea

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ... Map of South Korea The largest cities in South Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces. ... Map of South Korea South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass. ...

External links

• City government website
• Open Directory category

Administrative divisions of Gyeonggi province, South Korea
Capital Suwon
Cities Ansan | Anseong | Anyang | Bucheon | Dongducheon | Gimpo | Goyang | Gunpo | Guri | Gwacheon | Gwangju | Gwangmyeong | Hanam | Hwaseong | Icheon | Namyangju | Osan| Paju | Pocheon | Pyeongtaek | Seongnam | Siheung | Suwon | Uijeongbu | Uiwang | Yangju | Yongin
Counties Gapyeong | Yangpyeong | Yeoju | Yeoncheon