Gwangju (kor)

Gwangju

Gwangju ranks 635th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Paraguay, Plymouth, and Volgograd. Memorable people born in Gwangju include Han Kang, Moon Geun-young, and Yi So-yeon. Gwangju has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes. Gwangju is located in South Korea.

Gwangju, formerly romanized as Kwangju, is South Korea's sixth-largest metropolis. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister. The city was also the capital of South Jeolla Province Province until the provincial office moved to the southern village of Namak in Muan County in 2005 because Gwangju was promoted to a metropolitan city and was independent of South Jeolla Province. Read more on Wikipedia