Gwangmyeong City
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Gwangmyeong 광명시 |
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| Municipal City | ||
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| • Hanja | ||
| • Revised Romanization | Gwangmyeong-si | |
| • McCune-Reischauer | Kwangmyŏng-si | |
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 Location in South Korea |
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| Country |
 South Korea
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| Region | Sudogwon | |
| Administrative divisions | 18 dong | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 38.5 km2 (14.9 sq mi) | |
| Population (2002) | ||
| • Total | 341,671 | |
| • Density | 8,874.6/km2 (22,985/sq mi) | |
| • Dialect | Seoul | |
Gwangmyeong (Korean pronunciation: [kwaŋ.mjʌŋ]; Korean: 광명시) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It borders Seoul to the east, north and northeast, Anyang to the southeast, and Siheung to the southwest.
The Gwangmyeong City is home to the world's largest IKEA store at 59,000 square meters (640,000 square feet), along with a large Costco store and a Lotte Premium Outlet.
Gwangmyeong City area was part of the old (or original) Siheung County as with Yeongdeungpo, Guro, and Geumcheon areas. It belonged to West (서면) and South townships (남면) of original Siheung County. In 1914, the two townships were merged into West township of "expanded" Siheung County.
In 1963, the northern part of Gwangmyeong (at that time, the northern part of West Township in Siheung County) area was merged into an expanded Seoul (i.e. districts for urban planning in Seoul. 서울시 도시계획구역) as with Gwacheon (at that time Gwacheon was a township in Siheung County) and Sindo township of Goyang County (now parts of Goyang City which borders Seoul). The neighbourhood of Gwangmyeong (Gwangmyeong-dong) and Cheolsan (Cheolsan-dong) were developed as a residence zone next to Seoul and it was provisionally planned to be administratively merged with Seoul Metropolitan City. In 1974, Gwangmyeong-ri and Cheolsan-ri became a part of the county branch of Gwangmyeong (광명출장소) and in 1979 southern part of Gwangmyeong area became Soha town (소하읍). In 1981, the annexation to Seoul foundered as Seoul's unexpected rapid growth greatly concerned government officials. Consequently, the county branch of Gwangmyeong and Soha town merged and formed a new city of Gwangmyeong, instead of being annexed to Guro-gu, Seoul.
In the 1980s and the early 1990s, many apartment complexes were built in Cheolsan-dong and Haan-dong. The population increased up to 300,000. In 1995, the Seoul-Gwangmyeong boundary was readjusted, in which a tiny part of Cheolsan-dong was merged into the newly created Geumcheon-gu, Seoul. In 2004, Gwangmyeong Station was open, and in 2010, apartment complexes in Soha-dong were built up.
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