page_title: Wangjing Subdistrict
section_title: Koreatown
hierarchical_section_title: Wangjing Subdistrict / Koreatown
context_page_description: Wangjing is a major residential and technological area and subdistrict of Chaoyang District, in the northeast of Beijing.
context_section_description: Expansive in dimensions, Wangjing is a very important residential zone and has a large number of high-rise apartments built from the mid-1990s onwards. Due to the large number of South Korean residents, Wangjing has also become known as Beijing's Koreatown. More than 70,000 South Koreans were living in the neighborhood in 2007.
caption: Korean shop signs in Wangjing, Beijing
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