Namhae County

Namhae County (Namhae-gun) is a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.

Demographics
As of 2005, Namhae had a population of 54,392. However, Namhae has witnessed an aging and decreasing population, having had a population of 137,914 in 1964.

Administrative divisions
Namhae-gun is divided into 1 eup and 9 myeon.
 * Namhae-eup
 * Changseon-myeon
 * Gohyeon-myeon
 * Idong-myeon
 * Mijo-myeon
 * Nam-myeon
 * Samdong-myeon
 * Sangju-myeon
 * Seo-myeon
 * Seolcheon-myeon

Namhae in popular culture

 * The fictional character Jin-Soo Kwon (portrayed by Daniel Dae Kim) on the ABC television show Lost is from Namhae.
 * Korean Drama "Couple or Trouble" aka "Fantasy Couple" was set in Namhae. The German village Dogil Maeul and Hilton Namhae Golf Spa were featured.
 * The 2009 documentary “Home from Home” (Endstation der Sehnsüchte), directed by Cho Sung-hyung, was filmed in the German Village Dogil Maeul (독일 마을).
 * In the 2017 Korean drama "Because This Is My First Life", female lead Yoon Ji-ho (portrayed by Jung So-min) is from Namhae. The cast reportedly shot some scenes there.
 * The fictional character Prosecutor Hwang Si-Mok is transferred to Namhae county at the end of the first season of the drama series Stranger (2017)
 * Season 2 of Stranger (2020) kicks off with the fictional character Prosecutor Hwang Si-Mok in the Namhae office.
 * In episode 14 of True Beauty, the protagonists come to Namhae-gun without imagining that they would be the last time together.
 * In Cities: Skylines, appears in "Land of the Isles" (섬 평지) maps.

Notable people

 * Choi San from the kpop boy group ATEEZ is from Namhae. He was selected as Namhae's Public Relations Ambassador in 2021.

Geography
Namhae county covers an area of 357 km2, covering the main islands of Namhae and Changseon, the smaller islands of Jodo, Hodo and Nodo, and 65 other uninhabited islets.

Namhae county also features several peaks; Mangun (786m), Geum (681m), and Won (627m), all of which are located on Namhae island.

Sister cities
Namhae is twinned with:


 * 🇰🇷 Ganghwa, South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 Geumcheon-gu, South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 Dongdaemun-gu, South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 Gimhae, South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 Busanjin-gu, South Korea
 * 🇰🇷 Hampyeong, South Korea
 * 🇯🇵 Isa, Japan
 * Dunhuang, China
 * Yiyang, China
 * Jinggangshan, China
 * 🇩🇪 Nordfriesland, Germany