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Changsin-dong

place in South Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5072129 ↗
Source-derived summary

Changsin-dong (Korean: 창신동) is a dong (neighborhood) of Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.

Attractions

Changsin-dong Toy Wholesale Market - the largest toy and stationery market in Korea since 1975 and is accessible from Dongdaemun Station on Seoul Subway Line 1 and Line 4.

See also

Administrative divisions of South Korea

References

종로구 (Jongno District 鍾路區) (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2008-04-22.

"Chronicle of Beopjeong-dong and Haengjeong-dong" (in Korean). Guro District Official website. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2008-04-23.

"Mapo Information".

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Changsin-dong” is place in South Korea. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Changsin-dong, place and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2008, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Changsin-dong, place and South is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5072129. Authority coordinates are 37.575, 127.012. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 2008 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Changsin-dong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.