A blue-green dragon flying with a red pearl in its mouth: the flag of Ulsan, the great industrial city of South Korea.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
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CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a white field with a blue-green dragon emblem in the centre and, below it, the name of the city in Korean characters.
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.
Three flags in forty years: the one with stars of 1980
The city adopted the dragon emblem on 1 January 1995
On 15 July 1997 Ulsan split off from the province of South Gyeongsang to become a autonomous…
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Ulsan, the great port and industrial city of the southeast of South Korea, is white with a blue-green dragon flying with a red pearl in its mouth. The animal comes from a local legend.
The city adopted the dragon emblem on 1 January 1995. On 15 July 1997 Ulsan split off from the province of South Gyeongsang to become a autonomous metropolitan city, and the flag only changed the word written: from 울산, Ulsan, to 울산광역시, Ulsan metropolitan city.
Three flags in forty years: the one with stars of 1980, the premiere of the dragon in 1995, and the current one, which adds a word to the name.
1980-1994
As a city of the province of South Gyeongsang: blue, white and green stripes with five golden stars.
1995-1997
Premiere of the dragon with the pearl, still with the bare word 울산.
1997
The same image with 울산광역시, Ulsan metropolitan city, since 15 July 1997.
Dragon
according to Flags of the World, it evokes the dragons of local legend: the guardian of the Taehwa temple, patron of the city, and those of the East Sea.
Red pearl
the jewel that grants wishes; the dragon catching it in flight sums up the drive of the city.
Whole
an advanced city of industry and culture in the Pacific era, where nature and people go hand in hand, according to the official explanation.
The 1980 flag carried five golden stars in a V shape: they represented the five-year economic development plans and the 500,000 inhabitants of the city at the time.
The elevation to metropolitan city in 1997 did not change a single pixel of the dragon: the flag only added the word 광역시 to the name.
In the 1980 flag, the blue was the hope of a city in development, the white peace and the green eternal growth.
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Flag image: Ulsan Metropolitan Government. Replica (this file) made by User:D6283, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
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