Daegu (kor)

Daegu

Daegu ranks 300th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Providence, Rhode Island, Dijon, and Berkeley, California. Memorable people born in Daegu include Park Geun-hye, Lee Kun-hee, and Sung Jae-gi. Memorable people who died in Daegu include Bak Jungyang. Daegu has been the birth place of many actors, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians. Daegu is located in South Korea.

Daegu, formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (대구광역시), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest metropolitan city in the nation with over 2.3 million residents; and the second-largest city after Busan in the Yeongnam region in southeastern South Korea. Daegu and the surrounding North Gyeongsang Province are often referred to as Daegu-Gyeongbuk, with a total population of over 5 million. Read more on Wikipedia