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Namjeju 남제주 | |
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| Korean transcription(s) | |
| • Hangul | 남제주군 |
| • Hanja | 南 濟 州 郡 |
| • Revised Romanization | Namjeju-gun |
| • McCune-Reischauer | Namcheju-gun |
 Flag  Emblem of Namjeju | |
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| Country |  South Korea |
| Region | Jeju |
| Population | |
| • Dialect | Jeju |
Namjeju County (Namjeju-gun; "South Jeju County") was a county in Jeju Province, South Korea until July 1, 2006 when it was merged with Seogwipo City.
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Jeju Province, officially Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, is the southernmost province of South Korea, consisting of 8 inhabited and 55 uninhabited islands, including Mara Island, U Island, the Chuja Archipelago, and the country's largest island Jeju Island. The province is located in the Korea Strait, with the Korean Peninsula to the northwest, Japan to the east, and China to the west. The province has two cities: the capital Jeju City, located on the northern half of the island and Seogwipo, located on the southern half of the island. The island is home to the shield volcano Hallasan, the highest point in South Korea. Jeju and Korean are the official languages of the province, and the vast majority of residents are bilingual.
Jeju City is the capital of the Jeju Province in South Korea and the largest city on Jeju Island. The city is served by Jeju International Airport.
Seogwipo is the second-largest city on Jeju Island, settled on a rocky volcanic coastline in the southern part of Jeju Province, South Korea. In July 2006, Seogwipo's boundaries were expanded to include the entire southern half of Jeju island. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and 2002 FIFA World Cup host, it had a population of 155,691 as of December 31, 2011.
Jeju National University is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities. founded in 1952 in Jeju City, the provincial capital of Jeju, South Korea. In 2008 Cheju National University and the Jeju National University of Education merged into Jeju National University. The Naewat-dang shamanic paintings are preserved there.
Jeju National University of Education was the only teacher-training university on South Korea's Jeju Island. It was located in the provincial capital, Jeju City. It merged with Cheju National University and its campus is used as Sara Campus of Cheju National University in 2008. Since then, it is being operated as the Teachers College of Cheju National University now.
The HVDC Haenam–Cheju is a 101 kilometer long HVDC submarine cable connection between the Korean Peninsula and the island of Jeju in South Korea, which went into service in 1996. The connection is bipolar, consisting of two 180kV cables with a maximum transmission power of 300 megawatts.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jeju is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gwangju, South Korea, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization. Its episcopal see and mother church is Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Jeju City.
Jeju World Cup Stadium is a football stadium with a 35,657-person capacity located in the city of Seogwipo, on the South Korean island of Jeju, which is administratively part of the eponymous province. Since 2006, the stadium has been home of Jeju United. The design of the stadium which is in the shape of mouth of a volcano is based on Jeju Island's natural volcanic environment and its sea surroundings. The roof of Jeju World Cup Stadium is in the form of nets of traditional fishing boats in Jeju. Jeju hosted several matches of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, after which about 7,000 changeable seats on the upper eastern stand were transferred to the Gangchanghak Practice Stadium, making the total seating capacity in the main stadium 35,657. It also hosted some matches of the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
The Jeju Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Jeju City, Jeju-do, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium was used by K League team Jeju United between 2007 and 2010. The stadium has a capacity of 20,053 people and was opened in 1968. The stadium was used for 2017 AFC Champions League round of 16 1st leg match against Urawa Red Diamonds since their regular stadium was used for 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Jeju Loveland is an outdoor sculpture park which opened in 2004 in Jeju Province, South Korea. The park is themed around sex. It plays sex education films and has 140 sculptures of humans in various sex positions. It also has other elements such as large phallus statues, stone labia, and hands-on exhibits such as a "masturbation-cycle". The park's website describes the location as "a place where love oriented art and eroticism meet".
International Convention Center Jeju opened in 2003 on Jeju Island, South Korea, in the Jungmun Resort near the city of Seogwipo. It began under private-public consortium ownership and is becoming fully publicly owned. It consists of a larger oval-shaped glass structure and a smaller round glass annex, and surrounding facilities. The largest hall accommodates 4,300 people, with various smaller halls and meeting rooms.
Yeomiji Botanical Garden (Korean: 여미지식물관) is botanical garden in Jungmun Tourism Complex, Seogwipo, Jeju-do, South Korea.
The Geomunoreum Lava Tube System is located between Seonheul-ri, Jocheon-eup and Weoljeong-ri, Gujwa-eup, Jeju City, Jeju-do. This lava tube system refers to a series of lava tubes formed by multiple ancient eruptions of basaltic lava flow from the Geomunoreum volcano The flows followed a north-northeast direction for about 13km, going down to the coastline. It is estimated that the tube system formed between about 100 and 300 thousand years ago.
Mt. Songak (Korean: 송악산) is a volcano on Jeju Island which has double craters and a parasitic cone. Crater 1 is about 500 m in diameter, 1.7 km in circumference. Crater 2, the mouth of the volcano in Crater 1, is about 400 m in diameter, 69 m in depth and leans vertically.
Altteureu Airfield, also known as Cheju-do No. 2 (K-40) Air Base, was a former Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and United States Air Force (USAF) air base on southern Jeju Island, South Korea. It was mostly returned to farm land from the late 1960s onwards, though the site is still owned and used to some extent by the Republic of Korea Air Force, in particular a grass airstrip known semi-officially as Alddreu Airport.
Kang Mun-sok (1906–1955) was a Korean socialist activist during the Japanese occupation period and thereafter.
Jeju National University Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Jeju National University, located in Jeju Island, South Korea. Founded in 2009, it is one of the founding law schools in South Korea and is one of the smaller schools with each class in the three-year J.D. program having approximately 40 students.
Citrus platymamma, called byeonggyul in Korean and benjul in Jeju, is a Korean citrus fruit native to Jeju Island.
Jeju International University is Tamra University and Jeju University of Industry and Information are integrated and open to private universities, located in Jeju, South Korea. In 1972, it was admitted to Jeju Unemployment College. In 1982, it changed its name from Jeju Unemployment College to Jeju Special Forces College. In 1998, Jeju Junior College changed its name to Jeju Industrial Information College. In 1999, Jeju Industrial Information University was established and the Lifelong Education Center was approved the same year. Shim Kyu-ho took office and was established as Jeju International University on March 1, 2012. Ahn Sang-bo graduated Automotive Engineering.
Oh Young-hun is a South Korean politician serving as 39th Governor of Jeju Province since 1 July 2022. He previously served as member of the National Assembly from 2016 to 2022. Oh's resignation as member of the National Assembly was accepted on April 29, 2022, due to his candidacy for the governor of Jeju Province in the 2022 local election.