Corunca is crossed by national road DN13 [ro] (part of European route E60), which starts in Târgu Mureș, continues to Sighișoara, 50 km (31 mi) to the south, and ends in Brașov.

[3] In the vicinity, there used to be two other villages, Sárvári was destroyed in the 16th century while Kisernye was devastated in 1661 by Ottoman Turkish troops.

The village was historically part of the Székely Land in Transylvania and belonged to Marosszék in the Middle Ages.

In August 1940, under the auspices of Nazi Germany, which imposed the Second Vienna Award, Hungary retook the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania, and the villages became part again of Maros-Torda County.

Towards the end of World War II, however, the area was taken back from Hungarian and German troops by Romanian and Soviet forces in September–October 1944.