Thus Ui-dong can be called either legal dong or administrative dong.

Yongho 1-dong alone, with more than 43,000 people, is the most heavily populated administrative dong in Nam-gu.

It was split into two administrative dong in 1990.

In some cases, a single legal dong is divided into several administrative dong.

In such cases, each administrative dong has its own office and staff.

They have been grouped together to from only 7 administrative dong, as follows:

It is both an administrative and legal dong.

Like most Korean cities, the city center of Masan is divided into administrative dong.

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was divided into two administrative dong, but these were reunited into Gongsan-dong in 1998.

Seoul is subdivided into 25 autonomous gu and 522 administrative dong.