The earliest evidence o human occupation in the Pohang aurie is frae the Mumun Pottery Period (1500–300 BC). Airchaeologists hae unyirdit smaw veelages an megalithic burials (dolmens) frae this period. Still a smaw fishin veelage at the dawn o the 20t hunderyear, the earliest steps toward developin Pohang intae a place o greater significance wur taken in 1930 wi the construction o a modren harbour. Pohang grew rapidly efterwaird, attainin the designation o a toun in 1931 an then earnin the status o a ceety in 1949.