Uiryeong County
Yeongnam, South Korea
About Uiryeong County
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. 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 a shooting and bombing rampage through several villages in the county; killing 56 people and wounding 35 others in the worst non-terrorist spree killing in history.
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contea di uiryeong (it)district de uiryeong (fr)uiryeong (sv)ыйрён (ru)محافظة وريونغ (ar)의령군 (ko)宜寧郡 (ja)宜寧郡 (zh)Region Map
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- Population: 27.6k inhabitants