Pyeong

Pyeong
Listing outside a real-estate agency showing sizes in square metres and pyeong for a large apartment (left) and studio (right).
Korean name
Hangul	평
Hanja	坪
Revised Romanization	pyeong
McCune–Reischauer	p'yŏng

A pyeong is a unit of measurement in Korea equal to ⁴⁰⁰⁄₁₂₁ square metres (3.3058 m², 3.954 sq yd or 35.586 sq ft). The similar unit of measurement in Japan is the tsubo (坪). It is used most often in referring to the sizes of rooms or buildings; a studio apartment will generally be around 10 to 15 pyeong, a house somewhere around 50 or more, and the smallest of rooms, consisting of only a bed and a bit of floor space for students, will be as little as 1.5 pyeong.

Anecdotally, the unit was derived from the amount of space an average sized man would take up lying on the floor with his arms and legs spread out.^{[citation needed]}

One pyeong consists of 36 square ja.^[1][2][3]

A new law enacted as of July 1, 2007 will replace the use of pyeong in official documents in South Korea with the square metre.^[4]

See also

• Units of measure
• List of Korea-related topics
• Japanese units of measurement
• Taiwanese units of measurement

references

1. ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20051228140325/
2. ^ http://samo15.netian.com/unit.html
3. ^ http://krdic.naver.com/detail.nhn?docid=40441500
4. ^ http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/217817.html