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The paper was founded in Seoul, Korean Empire by the British journalist John Weekley Hodge on 3 June 1905, as a weekly newspaper. [2] [1] [3]At the time, other English-language publications published in Korea, such as Ernest Bethell's The Korea Daily News and Homer Hulbert's Korea Review, criticized Japan's actions in Korea.
For example, the Seoul Electric Company, Seoul Electric Trolley Company, and Seoul Fresh Spring Water Company were all joint Korean-American owned enterprises. In 1904, an American by the name of Angus Hamilton visited the city and said, "The streets of Seoul are magnificent, spacious, clean, admirably made and well-drained. The narrow, dirty ...
Seoul, [b] officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, [c] is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, [8] emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population.
553 – Seoul changed hands from Baekje to Silla. 901 – Seoul under control of Taebong as Silla became divided into three kingdoms. 918 – Seoul became a part of newly founded Goryeo as the prior regime Taebong was overthrown. 1104 – Sukjong of Goryeo builds a palace in Seoul and declared it the second capital 'Namgyeong' meaning 'Southern ...
Asia Society logo (1997–2021). The Asia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. [9] [10] [11] In 1974, Rockefeller donated 300 objects of Asian art (worth between $10 and $15 million) to the Asia Society.
Seoul: A 2,000-Year History (Korean: 서울 2천년사; RR: Seoul 2cheonnyeonsa) is a book series on the history of Seoul. It consists of 40 volumes published serially by the Seoul Historiography Institute from 2013 to 2016. [1] The series is available for free in public libraries of Seoul and online in ebook format.
During the Joseon era, it started to be called Seoul by the public. In the middle of Joseon era, Hanseong and Hanyang were almost replaced by Seoul and remained only formal names. [4] During the period of Japanese colonial rule, Seoul was referred to by the Japanese exonym Keijō (京城), or the Korean reading of that name Gyeongseong.
Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea.