What is Mok-dong?
{{redlinks|date=March 2012}} '''Mok-dong''' is a district in [[Yangcheongu]], [[Seoul]]. It is in the northern west part of [[Yangcheon District]] and shares borders with [[Yeongdeungpo District]] [[Yanpyeongdong]] on its east, [[Shinjeongdong]] on its north, and [[Yeomchangdong]] on its southern north. As a typical [[agricultural]] areas in the past, it was made of small communities. In the 1970s, it started to develop as a large scale [[housing area]]. After the 1960s and 1970s, there used to be [[ghettos]] around [[the Anyangcheon]] bank formed by people who were dispossessed of their belongings and those who had moved there from rural areas, but the spots disappeared since the new town layout. The Mok-dong new town layout was announced in 1983, and completed in 1988. Mok-dong is famous for being the number two [[private education]] center after [[Gangnam]]. Subway stations Omokgyo line five and ShinMokdong line nine are located there. Major facilities of the district include [[Mokdong Stadium]], [[Anyangcheon]], [[Yongwang mountain park]], [[the Christian broadcasting station]], [[SBS]], and [[the Paris Park]]. ==Mokdong Ice Rink== The rink opened on December 1, 1989. It is 30x61m, which is the international [[ice rink]] standard on its ground and basement floors. On the second floor there are 5,000 audience seats. Around the ground floor rink there are 10 skater waiting rooms, a restaurant with room for 200, 2 snack bars, changing rooms, training rooms, 2 skating equipment stores, and one ice hockey equipment store. Opening hours are from 14:00 to 18:00 Mondays through Saturdays and 12:00 to 18:00 on Sundays and national holidays. ==Anyangcheon (Anyang stream)== The [[stream]] rises from [[Anyang temple]] in the [[Samseong mountain]], hence the name Anyangcheon. A stream with its source in the Samseong mountain (三聖山), [[Hakeu stream]] (鶴儀川) from the [[Baekun mountain]] (白雲山), and [[Sanbon stream]] from (山本川) from [[Gunpo]] join in [[Seoksudong]], [[Anyang, Gyeonggi|Anyang]] and flow northward. The stre