Umyeon-dong
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| translit_lang1_info1 = 牛眠洞
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Umyeon-dong ({{korean|hangul=우면동}}) is a dong (neighbourhood) of Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea is part of Gangnam District and a well-known, private neighborhood for the wealthy in southern Seoul.{{cite web |url=http://mengnews.joins.com/view.aspx?gCat=050&aId=2995389 |title=Korea Joongang Daily |website=mengnews.joins.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029214756/http://mengnews.joins.com/view.aspx?gCat=050&aId=2995389 |archive-date=2014-10-29}} It is a legal dong ({{Korean|hangul=법정동|labels=no}}) administered under its administrative dong ({{Korean|hangul=행정동|labels=no}}), Yangjae 1-dong. The first syllable of the name is derived from Umyeonsan, or Mt. Umyeon due to the geographical feature of the area has the mountain.{{cite web |url=http://www.encyber.com/search_w/ctdetail.php?masterno=763930&contentno=763930 |script-title=ko:우면동 (Umyeon-dong 牛眠洞)|publisher=Doosan Encyclopedia |access-date=2008-04-19|language=ko}}
Mount Umyeon-san
The mountain peak of Umyeon-San is located approximately {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Seoul, and about {{convert|5|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of Gwanaksan. Satelliteviews.net lists the peak elevation as "313",{{cite web|last=Geocode|first=Google Maps|title=Umyeon-san, South Korea|url=http://www.satelliteviews.net/cgi-bin/w.cgi?c=ks&UF=6402798&UN=6725257&DG=MT|work=SatelliteViews.net|publisher=Mountain|access-date=31 July 2011}} while Google Earth shows the maximum elevation at {{convert|280|m|ft|abbr=on}}, within a populated area.
Floods and landmines
During the 2011 Seoul floods, a landslide on an unstable slope of Mount Umyeon destroyed an apartment row, killing 17 people and may have buried about ten landmines dropped on the mountainsides during the Korean War.{{cite news|last=Song|first=Sang-ho|title=Military searches for stray landmines|url=http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110728000783|access-date=31 July 2011|newspaper=The Korea Herald|date=July 28, 2011}}
Attraction
See also
References
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External links
- [http://english.seocho.go.kr/ Seocho District official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924100417/http://www.seocho.go.kr/site/fe/page.jsp?code=fea040000000 Seocho District map] at the Seocho District official website
- {{in lang|ko}} [http://yangjae1.seocho.go.kr/ The Yangjae 1-dong Resident office]
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Category:Neighborhoods of Seocho District
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