Seongnam
city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Seongnam (Korean: 성남; Korean pronunciation: [sʰʌŋ.nam]) is the fourth largest city in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province after Suwon and the 10th largest city in the country. Its population is approximately one million. It consists of three administrative districts: Bundang District, Jungwon District, and Sujeong District.
Seongnam, one of the foremost planned cities in South Korean history, was conceived during the era of President Park Chung Hee for the purpose of industrializing the nation by concentrating electronic, textile, and petrochemical facilities there during the 1970s and 1980s. The city featured a network of roads, to Seoul and other major cities like Gwangju, Gyeonggi, from the early 1970s on. Today, Seongnam has merged with the metropolitan network of Seoul. Seongnam has also served as a "test bed" of South Korea's urban planning history. Bundang, one of the successful new town projects in the country, has been settled in the southern half of Seongnam since 1991.
The city is also home to K League football club Seongnam FC.
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Numerous major companies have migrated their headquarters from Downtown Seoul to Seongnam to help government's plan to accelerate the dispersion of Seoul's population to its suburbs and relieve the congested Seoul metropolitan area. Seongnam is now home to prominent companies such as KT (formerly Korea Telecom), Naver, and HD Hyundai Heavy Industries.
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