Buk District (Korean: 북구; RR: Buk-gu; lit.

[2] Buk District was first created as an office of Daegu in 1938, during the period of Japanese rule.

For most of the twentieth century, Buk District was purely an administrative division of Daegu, without any local autonomy.

Kyungpook National University and Yeungjin College are located in Buk District.

In January 1963, it was upgraded to the status of Buk District.