Yongin City "Rapid Population Growth in 'Yurim-dong' Prompts Division into Two Districts"

Holding Resident Briefing Session... Accepting Opinions on Boundaries and Names Until the 9th of Next Month

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province is promoting a plan to divide Yurim-dong in Cheoin-gu, where the population has recently surged, into two separate neighborhoods.

On the 28th, Yongin City announced that it held a residents' briefing session at the Yurim-dong Administrative Welfare Center on the 27th to gather residents' opinions on whether to split Yurim-dong.

Residents are listening to the city's plan to subdivide Yurim-dong at a community briefing held at the Yurim-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Yongin City.
[Photo by Yongin City]

The city is pushing for the division due to a series of urban development projects in the Bopyeong, Jindeok, Yubang, and Gorim districts, which have led to a large influx of apartment residents. As of the end of July, the population of Yurim-dong exceeded 44,000, and the city expects it to increase to 52,000 by the end of this year.

Yurim-dong was established as an administrative neighborhood by merging two legal neighborhoods, Yubang-ri and Gorim-ri, which were elevated to legal dong status in March 1996 when Yongin-gun was promoted to Yongin City. The name combines the 'Yu' from Yubang-dong and the 'Rim' from Gorim-dong.

The city is reviewing boundary proposals based on legal dong divisions and the Gyeongan Stream to split the rapidly growing Yurim-dong into Yubang-dong and Gorim-dong. To this end, the city is conducting a survey on the names and boundaries of the proposed split neighborhoods until the 9th of next month to collect residents' opinions.

To participate in the survey, residents can fill out a questionnaire prepared at the dong administrative welfare center, indicating their approval or disapproval of the proposed neighborhood names and boundaries after the division, and then submit it.

A city official stated, "This division aims to provide efficient administrative services in response to population growth," adding, "We will proceed with the division plan by collecting as many residents' opinions as possible."