Hauido

{{Short description|Island in South Korea}}

{{Infobox Korean name

| hangul = 하의도

| hanja = {{Linktext|荷|衣|島}}

| rr = Hauido

| mr = Haŭido

}}

Hauido ({{Korean|hangul=하의도}}) is an island off the South Korean coast in the Yellow Sea, part of Sinan County in South Jeolla Province. Its name means 'a lotus floating on water' and although it is an island by name, it actually comprises 56 separate islands, only nine of which are inhabited.{{cite book | title= Landscape Ecology in Asian Cultures |isbn = 9784431877998| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OenWCigfFBgC&q=haui+island+korea+population&pg=PA100|last1 = Hong|first1 = Sun-Kee|last2 = Wu|first2 = Jianguo|last3 = Kim|first3 = Jae-Eun|last4 = Nakagoshi|first4 = Nobukazu|date = 25 December 2010}} on Google Books Approximately 57 kilometers to shore, it has an area of 14.46 km² and is home to more than 1,900 people.{{Cite web|url=http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=1160644&categoryId=200000993|title = 하의도}} It was the birthplace of former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jointokyo.org/files/cms/news/pdf/Biography_of_Kim_Dae_Jung.pdf|title=Join Tokyo | Tokyo Development Learning Center|access-date=2012-10-02|archive-date=2012-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322185243/http://www.jointokyo.org/files/cms/news/pdf/Biography_of_Kim_Dae_Jung.pdf|url-status=dead}}