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Seoul Museum of Art is also nearby. The museum has hosted many special exhibitions, including those of the works of van Gogh, Monet, and René Magritte. [2] The head offices of three daily newspapers, The Chosun Ilbo, The Dong-A Ilbo and Kyunghyang Shinmun, are near the city hall. Seoul Plaza Hotel is located across from the city hall.
As it was a walled city, presence of the Seoul City Wall made great influence on imagined geographies of Seoul, like the London Wall surrounding Londinium. By the Seoul City Wall, Hanseong-bu was divided into two regions; an urban downtown space named as Seong-jung (성중; 城中) or Doseong-an (도성 안; lit.
The former city hall of Seoul was built in 1925, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. It is an example of Imperial Crown Style architecture, and served as city hall from Korea's liberation in 1945, until construction of the modern building in 2008. It now houses the Seoul Metropolitan Library, in front of the current, modern Seoul City Hall ...
N Seoul Tower at night. N Seoul Tower or Namsan Tower is a radio transmission tower located near the top of Namsan Park in Yongsan District. Construction began in 1969 and the observation deck was completed in 1975. It is 236.7 meters high and 479.7 meters above sea level. In 2000, It was acquired by YTN, a news television station. [5] [6]
Gangnam Commercial Area The Flag of the Seoul. Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, 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 ...
Gangnam-gu > Tourism / Culture > Maps (Gangnam-gu maps) (in Korean) Map, status quo and origin of dong names of Gangnam District "Tour The Ritzy Seoul District That Inspired Viral Hit 'Gangnam Style'", photoessay at BusinessInsider.com, 20 September 2012; Gangnam Street Videoclip
Sejong-daero; with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on the left in 2006 with 16-lanes of traffic. Sejongno (Korean: 세종로), officially Sejong-daero (Korean: 세종대로) is a street that runs through Jongno District, downtown Seoul, South Korea. It is named after King Sejong the Great of Joseon. The street is 600 meters in length, but ...
On 23 September 2012, the Seoul Metropolitan Government started on a trial basis, a 550-m designated section of Sejong-ro as pedestrian-only but permitted for cyclists. The section includes the road from the Gwanghwamun three-way intersection, along Gwanghwamun Plaza in front of the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts to the Sejong-ro ...