Gimpo Peninsula Eup. In the period of Joseon Dynasty, Gimpo Peninsula is occupied by Tongjin County and Gimpo County(including current Geomdan dong). In 1914, under the rearrangement of administrative division by Japan empires, the two counties were merged with Yangcheon County(current most part of Yangcheon District and Gangseo District of Seoul Special City) and became new Gimpo County. In 1963, part of former Yangcheon county was absorbed into Seoul but Gimpo county merges Gyeyang Myeon, formerly the district of Bucheon County. In 1989 Gyeyang Myeon was absorbed into Incheon Metropolitan City, followed by absorption of Geomdan Myeon into Incheon in 1995. It
Incheon International Airport 19th in the world and eighth in Asia by passenger traffic. In 2016, the airport served a total of 57,849,814 passengers. The airport opened for business in early 2001 to replace the older Gimpo International Airport, which now serves mostly domestic destinations plus shuttle flights to alternate airports in China, Japan, and Taiwan. The airport was originally planned to be built in three phases, incrementally increasing airport capacity as the demand grew. This was changed, however, to four phases after the airport was opened. In Phase 1, the airport had a capacity of 30 million passengers annually, and a cargo