Wangjing Subdistrict


Wangjing is a major residential and technological area and subdistrict of Chaoyang District, in the northeast of Beijing.

Koreatown

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.

Demographics

As of 2010, many South Koreans moving to Beijing had settled in Wangjing. Most South Korean businesspeople and their families in Beijing live in Wangjing. Hyejin Kim, author of International Ethnic Networks and Intra-Ethnic Conflict: Koreans in China, wrote that the growth of Wangjing has eclipsed Wudaokou in Haidian District as a Korean area.

Technology Center

Wangjing houses many technology companies, both small startup companies, as well as national, and large international corporations. Examples include:
There are several schools in Wangjing: