Talk:Addresses in South Korea

"산" used in East Asian system
In some South Korean addresses, the word "산" is used before the beonji-ho, as in the following example, written in the Latin alphabet: 427-701, san 58-1, Makgye-dong, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi Province. It occurs both when the address is written in Korean and when it is written in the Latin alphabet. Does anyone know what it means? The Seoulite I spoke to said it didn't mean anything, and that it was just something that some places used. Javalava14 (talk) 17:23, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Brief Explanation on San(산;山)
The word 'san(산;山;literally 'mountain')' is itself a part of the beonji-number(aka jibeon, 지번地番). Thus the jibeons with 'san' are parellel with the jibeons without it. The jibeons 'XX-dong 1' and 'XX-dong san 1' directs to different beonji.

This is differnt with the 'land definition' aka 'jimok'(지목地目), which defines the actual characteristics of the land ranging from housings and farms to streams, forests and roads. Those jimoks usually FOLLOWS the jibeon. As most of the lands in with 'san' jibeons are actually very high places within the mountain, it is quite common to find a registration entry in the list of the land - '산101임'; here the 'san(산)' is merely a part of the jibeon and it doesn't necessarily mean that the land is actually a very high place. In contrary, the jimok, 'im(임林)' means that this land is filled up with woods, strongly suggesting this land is mountainous (there are practically no lowlands which is not still been being farmed or urbanized in Korea). — Preceding unsigned comment added by HighVoltage (talk • contribs) 04:11, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Major adjustment needed: legal dong (법정동法定洞) and administrative dong (행정동行政洞)
This article doesn't mention the difference between legal dong (법정동法定洞) and administrative dong (행정동行政洞), which is significantly important in the address system.

Briefly speaking, the legal dong system is used for land registration, thus all the jibeons should be coupled with the legal dong system. In contrast, administrative dong system is for administration purpose and based on actual population distribution.

In old urban centers which are suffering population decrease, either by lagging behind or turning into business center, usually have dozens of pretty small legal dongs actually worked as administrative divisions only in colonial periods. These small legal dongs tend to be bound within much larger administrative dong(행정동), but the land registrations (jibeons) still needs its original legal dong to be addressed correctly. In contrast, relatively newer areas of cities have only few legal dongs which were groups of traditional villages in the past. These dongs are often divided into a few of administrative dongs, and those administrative dongs are usually named as 'legal dong name + number + "dong"', although it is not necessarily limited within the boundary of original legal dong which gave its name.

Switching from relative directions to cardinal directions
This article makes frequent statements such as "even numbers indicate an address on the right side of the street." Could someone please update this page to clarify what the point of reference is for right vs left? For example, is the "right" side determined based on facing North for North-South streets and West for East-West streets? Without this sort of clarification, the information that something will appear on the "right" or "left" side of a street is completely useless. -75.167.99.139 (talk) 04:55, 20 August 2019 (UTC)