Tongyeong
Hangul:	통영시
Hanja:	統營市
Revised Romanization:	Tongyeong-si
McCune-Reischauer:	T'ongyŏng-si
Statistics
Area:	236.5 km²
Population:	135,845 2001 registration[1]
Pop. density:	574.4 people/km²
Administrative divisions:	1 eup, 6 myeon, 11 dong

Tongyeong is a city in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It was formerly known as Chungmu, after the posthumous name of Admiral Yi Sun-sin. The name Tongyeong means "command post" and is itself associated with Admiral Yi, as it refers to his principal base that was located on nearby Hansan Island. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Jamo redirects here. ... Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean 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. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Image File history File links made from Maps of Korea File links The following pages link to this file: Tongyeong ... South Korea is divided into 8 provinces (do), 1 special autonomous province (teukbyeol jachido), 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi), and 1 special city (teukbyeolsi). ... South Gyeongsang is a province in the southeast of South Korea. ... Chung-Mu (otherwise spelled Joong-Moo) was the given name to the great Admiral Yi Sun-Sin of the Yi Dynasty. ... A posthumous name (Traditional Chinese: 諡號/謚號 Simplified Chinese: 谥号; Pinyin: shì hào; Romaji: shigō/tsuigō; Revised Romanization of Korean: siho) is a honorary name given to royalty in some cultures posthumously, that is, after the persons death. ... Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. ... Yi Sun-sin (April 28, 1545 – December 16, 1598), also commonly transliterated Yi Sun-shin or Yi Soon Shin, was a Korean naval leader noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) during the Joseon Dynasty. ... Hansan Island, known to Koreans as Hansando, is located across a relatively narrow strait from Choongmoo City, which was once known as Tongyeong. ...

Famous people

Famous people associated with the city include Yi Sun-sin, whose headquarters were located there, and Yun I-sang, a noted 20th-century composer. Yun I-sang (September 17, 1917 - November 3, 1995) was a Korean composer who spent most of his creative career in Germany. ...

Chungmu Halmae, or "Chungmu Grandmother", is a mythical old woman from Chungmu who gave her name to Chungmu Halmae Kimbap, a common Korean snack food.^{[citation needed]} Chungmu Halmae, though mythical, is one of the most recognized people from the area. The decision to group together a number of entities and incorporate them in to the city of “Tongyong” erased the name Chungmu from the Korean map and removed the home of the mythical grandmother from the peninsula.^[2]

See also

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

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Notes and references

1. ^ http://www.gnty.net/eng/admin/people.html
2. ^ Chungmu Gimbap. GN Culture Tour. Retrieved on February 6, 2006.

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External links

• City government website
• Tour2korea (ROK Government's tourist website), Tongyeong page - note three tourist links at bottom.
• Open Directory category
• Galbijim wiki page on Tongyeong

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