Yongin City, Majority of Residents in Yurim-dong Support Division Creating 50,000-Person New District

[Suwon Ilbo=Choi Ki-ho] Yongin Special City announced on the 28th that the majority of participants at a briefing session held on the 27th at Yurim-dong Administrative Welfare Center in Cheoin-gu expressed support for the division of Yurim-dong.

The city is pursuing the division of Yurim-dong to provide residents with improved administrative services, as the population of Yurim-dong is expected to exceed 52,000 by the end of this year.

The briefing was held prior to establishing concrete plans for the division, to explain the city's stance and implementation schedule and to gather residents' opinions to be considered when reviewing the names and boundaries of the new administrative divisions that would need to be determined during the division process.

At the meeting, residents offered several opinions on the names of the new divisions. These included opinions supporting the use of the existing name Yubangs-dong to respect the region's unique nomenclature, and opinions suggesting that using Yurim 1-dong and Yurim 2-dong would be better to maintain community ties for future generations.

Yurim-dong is an administrative division created in March 1996 after Yongin County was promoted to Yongin City, when Yubang-ri and Gorim-ri, which had belonged to the former Yongin-eup, were each elevated to dong (legal divisions), and the two were subsequently integrated. The name was formed by combining the character '유' from Yubang-dong and '림' from Gorim-dong.

The city is reviewing plans to divide Yurim-dong, whose population has surged due to large-scale urban development projects, into Yubang-dong (Yubang 1-15 tong) and Gorim-dong (Gorim 1-24 tong) based on legal divisions and the Gyeongan Stream as boundaries.

To allow residents who did not attend the briefing to also voice their opinions, the city will conduct a survey through September 9th on the names and boundaries for the division.

To participate in the survey, residents can fill out a survey form prepared at the Administrative Welfare Center with their preference among options including △Yurim-dong and Gorim-dong △Yurim 1-dong and Yurim 2-dong △Yubang-dong and Gorim-dong △Other for the names of the divisions after the split, as well as indicate their support or opposition to the proposed boundaries suggested by the city, and submit the completed form.

A city official stated, "The population of Yurim-dong surpassed 44,000 as of the end of July due to move-ins to large-scale residential complexes in the Bobyeong, Jindeok, Yubang, and Gorim districts," and added, "As the population is expected to exceed 52,000 by the end of this year, we will establish and implement division plans that reflect residents' opinions to the maximum extent."