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Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station

metro station in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ85980669 ↗
Source-derived summary

Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower Station is a station on the Sillim Line. It is located in Daebang-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station” as metro station in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Seoul, Regional and Office.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Seoul, Regional and Office providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station”, the useful work is to connect “metro station in Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85980669. Authority coordinates are 37.505, 126.922. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station primary sources, Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station archive and Seoul research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Seoul Regional Office of Military Manpower station” 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.