Gyo-dong is a dong

Dong (administrative division)

A dong is the lowest administrative unit of districts and of those cities which are not divided into wards throughout Korea...

or neighborhood in the city of Gyeongju

Gyeongju

Gyeongju is a coastal city in the far southeastern corner of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. It is the second largest city by area in the province after Andong, covering with a population of 269,343 people according to the 2008 census. Gyeongju is southeast of Seoul, and east of the...

, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

. It is one of legal dong under its administrative dong, Wolseong-dong

Wolseong-dong, Gyeongju

Wolseong-dong is an administrative dong or a neighbourhood in the administrative subdivisions of the Gyeongju City, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea...

's jurisdiction. The name, Gyo-dong originates from the fact that the area has had a hyanggyo

Hyanggyo

The Hyanggyo were government-run provincial schools established separately during the Goryeo Dynasty and Joseon Dynasty , but did not meet with widespread success in either dynasty...

, government-managed Confucian academies during the Goryeo

Goryeo

The Goryeo Dynasty or Koryŏ was a Korean dynasty established in 918 by Emperor Taejo. Korea gets its name from this kingdom which came to be pronounced Korea. It united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean peninsula until it was removed by the Joseon dynasty in 1392...

 and Joseon dynasties. It belonged to Bunae-myeon, Gyeongju County (Gyeongju-gun) during the late period of the Joseon Dynasty. Gyo-dong was variously called Hyanggyotgol, Gyochon or Gyori at the times.

Dorurang Mountain (Dorurangsan) with a height of 95 meter lies across Gyo-dong, and nearby neighborhoods, Inwang-dong, and Tap-dong.

Cultural properties in Gyo-dong include not only tangible heritages such as Gyeongju Hyanggyo

Gyeongju Hyanggyo

The Gyeongju Hyanggyo is a hyanggyo or government-run provincial school during the Goryeo and Joseon periods, which is located the neighborhood of Gyo-dong, Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea...

 (Gyeognju Confucian Academy), Choe Sik's house, Gyeongju Samaso (Gyeongju's local council for government officers), Cheongwan temple site (Cheongwansaji), but also Gyeongju Gyo-dong beopju

Beopju

Beopju is a traditional Korean rice liquor, of the cheongju family of liquors. It is made chiefly from glutinous rice, and has an alcohol content of about 15%.Beopju first appears in historical records in the Goryeo Dynasty...

(a rice wine) to have been designated as Important Intangible Cultural Property.