Country South Korea Administrative divisions 1 eup, 12 myeon Population 32,371 (2004) Local time Friday 3:29 AM | Region Yeongnam Area 483 km² Province South Gyeongsang Province Dialect South Gyeongsang Province | |
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Uiryeong County (Korean: 의령군Uiryeong-gun Hanja:宜寧郡) is a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is known to be one of the least populated counties in South Korea.
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Map of Uiryeong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
In 1938, citizen of Uiryeong, Lee Byung-chull, founded Samsung in nearby Daegu.
On the evening of April 26, 1982, policeman Woo Bum-kon went on shooting rampage through several villages in the county; killing 56 people and wounding 35 others. It was the worst recorded spree killing in known history until the 2011 Norway attacks.
Transportation
Uiryeong has a convenient location as it sits between Jinju to the west and Haman/Masan/Changwon to the East. A bus runs regularly from the bus terminal in Uiryeong-Eup to all major cities in South Korea. A bus journey to Masan or Jinju takes approximately 35 minutes and 45 minutes respectively from Uiryeong bus terminal, while the journey to Busan takes 1 hour. It is also possible to take a bus directly to Seoul from Uiryeong.
The biggest problem in terms of transportation is that the intercity buses stop running to Uiryeong from the nearby cities fairly early in the evening. The last bus from Busan is 6:40 PM, from Jinju, it's 7:30 PM and from Masan, it's 9:00 PM.
Sister cities
Uiryeong is twinned with: