Ulsan is a metropolitan city in the south-east of South Korea, facing the Sea of Japan. It is located 70km north of Busan.
The city forms the heart of the country's industrial area called the Ulsan Industrial District. The city hosts the K-League football club Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i (Ulsan Hyundai Tigers), who, after the World Cup of 2002, relocated from their former stadium in Jung-gu, which is now a municipal ground, to the Munsu Stadium, which hosted several matches in the World Cup. The city is home to another soccer team, Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, which plays in the National League. Ulsan is also home to the University of Ulsan.
As the center of the Ulsan Industrial District, the city is the corporate base of the multinational Hyundai conglomerate. Up to 1962, Ulsan operated as a fishing port and market centre. As part of South Korea's first five-year economic plan, Ulsan became an open port. Additionally, major industrial plants and factories were developed, including in particular an oil refinery, fertiliser plants, automobile production and heavy industries. The shipbuilding port Bangeojin became part of the city in 1962.
Ulsan is currently the home of Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipyard; the world's largest automobile assembly plant, owned by Hyundai Motors; and the world's largest oil refinery, operated by SK Group.
The city was a major centre of Korean whaling, which led to its selection as the site of the June 2005 International Whaling Commission meeting.
Ulsan's average rainfall (based on an average of the last 30 years) is 1272mm.
Ulsan City officials decided to proceed with various wide-ranging municipal policies in a bid to transform Ulsan into a globally renowned city, speeding up its effort to build 'Industrial Capital, Green Ulsan'. The City's 2007 municipal policy aims to raise its status as the industrial capital that acts as the growth engine for Korean economy. Ulsan City officials said that they would speed up their efforts to create the Auto Valley Chemical Innovation Complex, which is designed to serve as a growth engine for the nation's economy by combining the highly advanced and specialized structure of the existing industry with the knowledge-based industry.
Ulsan City will launch the 'business love movement' as part of an effort to create favorable conditions for businesses, and will start the construction of agricultural product distribution center, expand new port supportive transportation route, develop the supportive complex, and build marine and port business center in an attempt to actively promote the modernization of distribution facilities and port economic zone.
Ulsan City will come up with a long-term development plan for 2021 and promote a systematic management of urban growth by adjusting the urban management plan.
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