White flag of the most populous province of South Korea: its green and blue mark draws the initials of its name in hangul turned into a road.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a rectangular field —the cloth of the flag —with a 2:3 ratio, white, with a green and blue mark in the centre and, below it, the name of the province written in Korean.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Gyeonggi is that of the most populous province of South Korea, the one that surrounds Seoul. Its white field carries a green and blue mark that looks abstract: they are the first three letters of the name in hangul, joined together like a road.
The provincial flag ordinance was approved on 16 March 2021, with the slogan GO GREAT, GYEONGGI. The drawing takes the initial consonants of the name: ㄱ from Gyeong, ㄱ from Gi and ㄷ from Do. The three pieces are joined in a line that moves away: according to the official website, it is the road the province opens towards a better tomorrow with its people.
The province has redrawn its flag four times, roughly every twenty years.
1967-1996
Green field with a blue emblem of circles and a triangle.
1996-2006
Three blue, red and orange crescents forming a circle.
2006-2021
A lozenge with connected dots and the slogan Global Inspiration.
2021
The current ㄱㄱㄷ road: green upper stroke, blue lower strokes.
ㄱ, ㄱ, ㄷ
the initials of Gyeonggi-do in the Korean alphabet, drawn as a road.
Blue
trust, energy and the future; the strokes that rise to the right speak of prosperity.
Green
nature, living together, ecology and peace.
The horizontal stroke of ㄷ
the variety of lives that coexist in the province.
The three pieces of the road are not decoration: they are the hangul initials of Gyeonggi-do, explained one by one on the official website.
The 2006 flag carried a dot for each city and county of the province, joined by lines: a network of joint effort.
In 1967 the emblem was a circle embraced by a triangle: the centre of the country and development, on a green that meant life.
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Sources consulted:
Flag image: Gyeonggi Province Government, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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