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Cheongwon County

former administrative division of South Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ50333 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cheongwon County (Korean: 청원군) was a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It was dissolved on July 1, 2014 and consolidated to Cheongju.

Government

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (later Ministry of Food and Drug Safety), and Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were/are headquartered in the Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, which was once in Cheongwon County.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Cheongwon County” as former administrative division of South Korea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Cheongwon, County and former.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cheongwon, County and former providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Cheongwon County”, the useful work is to connect “former administrative division of South Korea” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50333. Authority coordinates are 36.633, 127.400. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Cheongwon County” 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.