A four-colour sun on white: the flag of South Gyeongsang gathers its mountains, its sea, its land and its people into a circle.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
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 four-colour circle 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.
Every date in its story, at a glance.
Just two flags: the geometric one of 1974 and the current sun
Ulsan belonged to this province until 1997
The current design was approved on 22 November 1999
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of South Gyeongsang is white with a four-colour circle that comes out like a sun. Ulsan belonged to this province until 1997. The current design was approved on 22 November 1999, and the provincial website sums it up like this: nature and people fused into a rising celestial body.
The province launched its mark in the late nineties, when almost the whole country was renewing its symbols for the new century. The emblem is a circle with a white centre and four coloured arcs; below it goes the word 경상남도. Each colour has an official explanation.
Just two flags: the geometric one of 1974 and the current sun.
1974-1999
A blue stroke in the shape of ㄱ at the top and a yellow one in the shape of ㄴ below: the first two letters of the name in Korean.
1999
The current four-colour sun.
Red at the top
the passionate spirit of those who love their province and their country.
Green on the left
nature and industry in harmony.
Yellow on the right
the fertile land, the basis of life.
Blue below
the clean waters of the Nakdong river and of the South Sea.
White centre
the strength of the province, shining like a rising sun.
The whole circle
union to develop the whole territory equally in the age of the Pacific.
In 1974 the flag drew neither a sun nor a map: it placed two letters of the Korean alphabet, ㄱ and ㄴ, the initials of Gyeongsang Nam-do, turned into blue and yellow shapes.
The name of the region was formed in 1314 by joining the first syllable of Gyeongju with that of Sangju; the North and South provinces, heirs to that, still share it.
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Sources consulted:
Flag image: South Gyeongsang Province Government, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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