Cities of South Korea
| City | |
| Hangul | |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | si |
| McCune–Reischauer | si |
| Specific city | |
| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | teukjeongsi |
| McCune–Reischauer | t'ŭkchŏngsi |
| Administrative city | |
| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | haengjeongsi |
| McCune–Reischauer | haengchŏngsi |
A city is a municipal administrative unit in South Korea. Cities are ranked on the same level as county and autonomous district. Like other contemporary administrative units, they are defined by the Local Autonomy Law.
Under South Korean laws sets the following condition for a municipality to be designated as a city: population of a county must generally be 150,000 or greater or passage of a special legislative bill by the National Assembly such as Gyeryong.
The national government can designate cities of at least 500,000 inhabitants to have the status of special status city. These statuses expand the scope of administrative authority delegated from the provincial government to the city government. Also city with be reclassify as a Metropolitan city of at least 1,000,000 inhabitants, only Suwon and Changwon have met the requirements but have not yet been nominated.
A specific city is a municipal city that has a population greater than 500,000 and has been designated as such by an order of the national government under Article 175 of the Local Autonomy Law. Specific city are given powers to subdivide themselves into non-autonomous districts (일반구; 一般區) but, not all Specific city are subdivided into non-autonomous districts such as Gimhae, Hwaseong, or Namyangju. Currently South Korea have a total of 15 Specific cities.
An Administrative city is a type of municipal city that are created on 1 July 2006 after the 2005 referendum in Jeju and the province was given extensive administrative powers that had previously been reserved for the central government. Since Jeju was given more autonomy cities in Jeju could not be defined by the Local Autonomy Law so this new class of city was created for Jeju. Currently only two cities are classify as Administrative city.
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