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| | Special cities of Korea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Special cities in Korea are cities that have status equivalent to the provinces of Korea (do). |
 | | Special cities in South Korea were known as jikhalsi ("directly administrated city", 직할시; 直轄市) until January 1, 1995, when they were changed to gwang-yeog-si ("metropolitan city", 광역시; 廣域市). |
 | | Seoul is a teugbyeolsi ("capital metropolitan city", 특별시; 特別市), and had the status as a distinguished special city, even when it was called jikhalsi like the other special cities. |
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