Guro-gu

Guro-gu ; 구로구 ; municipality of Seoul
Coordinates	37 ° 29 '42 " N , 126 ° 53' 13" E Coordinates: 37 ° 29 '42 " N , 126 ° 53' 13" E
surface	41.4 km²
Residents	573,794 (2012)
Population density	13,860 inhabitants / km²

Guro-gu (구로구) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul and is located on the southwestern outskirts.

Districts

Guro-gu is divided into 16 dongs (quarters, neighborhoods):

Quarters of Guro-gu

economy

Guro Digital Complex

Guro-gu was an industrial center in the past and a center of the textile industry especially until the 1990s. Since the 1970s it has developed into a center of information technology, in the 1990s 80% of Korean IT companies were based here.

Web links

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