Yeongil

Yŏngil lies on Korea's eastern coast, where its name evokes the sight of the morning sun rising over the sea. The district received that name in 940 under Koryŏ and became a dependency of the eastern capital at Kyŏngju in 1018. Tradition also remembered a site called Ilwŏlchi, or Sun and Moon Pond, as a place where Silla held rites to heaven.