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Encyclopedia > Kaesong Industrial Region
Kaesŏng Industrial Region
Korean Name
McCune-Reischauer Kaesŏng Kongŏp Chigu
Revised Romanization Gaeseong Gongeop Jigu
Hangul 개성 공업 지구
Hanja 開城工業地區
Short Name Kaesŏng (Gaeseong;
개성; 開城)
Statistics
Population ?
Area ?
Government Industrial Region
Administrative Divisions (unknown)
Split from Kaesŏng Directly Governed City, 2002
Dialect Seoul
Location Map
(Note: Map shows boundaries of former Kaesŏng Directly Governed City)
Kaesong, North Korea

Kaesŏng Industrial Region (Kaesŏng Kongŏp Chigu) is a special administrative region of North Korea. It was formed in 2002 from part of Kaesŏng Directly Governed City. The region is undergoing free-market trials and reforms. McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (lit. ... Kaesŏng (Gaeseong) is a city in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, a former Directly Governed City, and the capital of Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Korean language is spoken in a number of different dialects around the Korean peninsula. ... The Seoul dialect is the standard dialect of Korean in South Korea. ... From German Wikipedia File links The following pages link to this file: Kaesong Kaesong Industrial Region Categories: GFDL images ... Administrative divisions of North Korea As of 2004, North Korea consisted of two directly-governed cities (Chikalshi; 직할시;直轄市), three special administrative regions with various designations, and nine provinces (Do, singular and plural; 도; 道). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kaesŏng (Gaeseong) is a city in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, a former Directly Governed City, and the capital of Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty. ...


See also

  • List of Korea-related topics


This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...

Administrative divisions of North Korea
Directly Governed Cities
P'yŏngyang | Rasŏn
Former Directly Governed Cities

Ch'ŏngjin | Hamhŭng | Kaesŏng | Namp'o Administrative divisions of North Korea As of 2004, North Korea consisted of two directly-governed cities (Chikalshi; 직할시;直轄市), three special administrative regions with various designations, and nine provinces (Do, singular and plural; 도; 道). ... Large flag of North Korea Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ... Pyŏngyang (Pyeongyang) is the capital city of North Korea, located in the northwest of the country, near the Taedong River. ... Rasŏn (formerly Rajin-Sŏnbong) is a Directly Governed City in North Korea. ... Chŏngjin (Chŏngjin-shi) is the capital of North Korea. ... Hamhŭng (Hamhŭng-si) is the capital of South Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea. ... Kaesŏng (Gaeseong) is a city in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea, a former Directly Governed City, and the capital of Korea during the Goryeo Dynasty. ... Nampo is a city and seaport in South Pyŏngan Province, North Korea. ...

Special Administrative Regions
Kaesŏng Industrial Region | Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region | Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region
Provinces
Chagang | North Hamgyŏng | South Hamgyŏng | North Hwanghae | South Hwanghae | Kangwŏn | North P'yŏngan | South P'yŏngan | Ryanggang

  Results from FactBites:
 
Kaesŏng Industrial Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (651 words)
Kaesŏng Industrial Park is being developed in the region, as a collaborative economic development with South Korea.
The Kaesŏng industrial park is run by a South Korean committee that has a fifty-year lease which began in 2004.
The industrial park is seen as a way for South Korean companies to employ cheap labor that is educated, skilled and speaks Korean which would make communication considerably easier.
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