Sanggye-dong

Sanggye-dong
Korean transcription(s)
 • Hangul상계동
 • Hanja上溪洞
 • Revised RomanizationSanggye-dong
 • McCune–ReischauerSanggye-dong
CountrySouth Korea
Area
 • Total15.68 km2 (6.05 sq mi)
Population
 (2001)[1]
 • Total261,479
 • Density17,000/km2 (43,000/sq mi)

Sanggye-dong (Korean: 상계동) is a dong (neighbourhood) of Nowon District, Seoul, South Korea.[1][2] It was founded in the 1960s by squatters and by the 1980s there were approximately 1,000 squatter households and 600 tenants.[3] In 1985, it was declared a redevelopment zone. Most people left and some resisted before being evicted forcibly.[3]

  1. ^ a b 상계동 (Sanggye-dong 上溪洞) (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  2. ^ "Origins: Dong Name Origins" (in Korean). Nowon District official site. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
  3. ^ a b Kim, Hyung-Hook (1998). "South Korea: Experiences of eviction in Seoul". In Azuela, Antonio; Ortiz, Enrique; Duhau, Emilio (eds.). Evictions and the right to housing: Experience from Canada, Chile, the Dominican Republic, South Africa, and South Korea. Ottawa, Ontario: International Development Research Centre. ISBN 0-88936-861-9.