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Geumho-dong & Oksu-dong · 🔨

A Village That Melted Iron, and a Name Built From Metal and Water

Geumho-dong's old name, "Musoemak," came from the blacksmiths who melted iron here to forge cauldrons and farm tools; its current name is a constructed word built by borrowing one character each from "iron" and "water."

Key takeaways

Geumho-dong's old name was "Musumak" or "Musoemak," derived from the village of blacksmiths who once melted iron here to forge cauldrons and farm tools. Fact In Chinese characters it was written Sucheolli (水鐵里, "water-iron village"), but to distinguish it from other places sharing the same name, city planners built a new name: "geum" (金) borrowed from "cheol" (鐵, iron), and "ho" (湖, lake) borrowed from "su" (水, water) — together forming "Geumho" (金湖). Fact During a 1955 administrative reorganization, Geumho-dong and Oksu-dong were briefly merged into a single district called Geumok-dong. Fact

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Editorial note

Don't suggest that any physical ironworks or archaeological remains can still be seen here today — this section covers the origin of the name only. Unverified