became home to many foreign embassies. Because of this, the city has many ambassador's residences, allowing the community to be rather diverse in race, nationality, and culture compared to other parts of Korea. Government and politics Administration Seongbuk-dong is located in the west of Seongbuk-gu, Seoul. It has control over four dongs designated by customary law: Seongbuk-dong, Seongbuk-dong 1-ga, Dongso-mun 1-ga, and Dongso-mun-dong 4-ga. Income gap After the war, the people of Hamgyeong Province started to evacuate and set up this valley as a slum. In the 1960s, when the economic development took place, the mountain villages were broken into one new residential area. Then, since the late 1970s, Seongbuk-dong became popular for good prospects and environments, and luxury houses have begun to enter. In particular, this rumor has spread to the diplomatic community, so the embassy has begun to slowly enter the area, and now residences of 30 countries are established. Now, Seongbuk-dong is home to a lot of rich people, but also has the last slum of Seoul, Bukjeong town. Therefore, Seongbuk-dong is known for the large gap in economic power between the rich and the poor. Culture Literature Pigeon of Seongbuk-dong 성북동 산에 번지가 새로 생기면서 본래 살던 성북동 비둘기만이 번지가 없어졌다. As Seongbuk-dong Mountain is newly developed Only the Seongbuk-dong pigeon which originally lived lost their address 새벽부터 돌 깨는 산울림에 떨다가 가슴에 금이 갔다. 그래도 성북동 비둘기는 하느님의 광장 같은 새파란 아침 하늘에 성북동 주민에게 축복의 메시지나 전하듯 성북동 하늘을 한 바퀴 휘 돈다. Trembling from the noise of breaking rocks since dawn, their hearts cracked. Still, the Seongbuk-dong pigeons, in the morning sky, like the square of God, seems to deliver a message of blessing to the people, as they fly around the Seongbuk-dong sky. 성북동 메마른 골짜기에는 조용히 앉아 콩알 하나 찍어 먹을 널찍한 마당은커녕 가는 데마다 채석장 포성이 메아리쳐서 피난하듯 지붕에 올라앉아 아침 구공탄 굴뚝 연기에서 향수를 느끼다가 산 1번지 채석장에 도로 가서 금방 따낸 돌 온기(溫氣)에 입을 닦는다. In the barren valley of Seongbuk-dong, there is even no yard to sit down quietly to eat beans. Everywhere they go the sound of firing from a quarry echoes so they sit on a roof as if to evacuate, feeling the homesickness in the smoke of the morning chimney stove then goes back to the mountain quarry wiping their mouth with the warmth of a stone 예전에는 사람을 성자(聖者)처럼 보고 사람 가까이 사람과