Uiryeong (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uiryeong County (Uiryeong-gun) is a county in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea. Woo Bum-Kon carried out the worst incident of spree killing in known history here on April 26, 1982. Gyeongsangnam-do (South Gyeongsang) is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Changwon. Before 1895, the area corresponding to modern-day Gyeongsangnam-do was part of Gyeongsang Province, one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. In 1895, southern Gyeongsang was replaced by the Districts of Jinju in the west and Dongnae (modern-day Busan) in the east. In 1896, the two districts were merged to form Gyeongsangnam-do.