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Seoul - South Korea
The capital of South Korea is listened for Seoul. Up to the partition of the country 1948 it was the capital of all of Korea of 1394. Seoul has 10,349,291 inhabitants in the real town and 21,545,457 in the agglomeration.
Seoul is the largest town as well as trade, industry and cultural center South Korea. The town was hosts of the Olympic summer Games and 2002 one of the holding places of the soccer World Cup in 1988.
Story of Seoul
4000 established himself for people for the first time approximately in the area of today's Seoul before Christ. The story of Seoul as a capital can be before Christ traced back to 18. This year the newly founded kingdom built Baekje here its capital hectare yang, situated directly at the river Han.
At the moment while the three empires were fighting for dominance on the Korean peninsula, one thought who has Seoul under control can check the whole peninsula. For this reason palace in Seoul built, the town which was called southern capital, has one in the 11th century of the rulers of the Goryeo dynasty.
Hectare yang was appointed capital of Korea on October 28th, 1394 and of the new ruler renamed the Joseon dynasty in Hanseong. During the Japanese occupation the name Gyeongseong, Kejo was quoted in Japanese. Seoul is also the expression for capital in Korean. Therefore there is not any Hanja which indicates Seoul. The character means main place for gyeong which one, however, is frequently used on maps and signposts.
Originally the whole town was surrounded by a solid about six meters high protecting wall. This Umfriedung served for the security of the citizens in front of wild animals like the tiger. The Siberian tiger was far common in Korea once. The wall also offered protection against thieves, vagabonds and attacks. Only certainly, today, the wall partly is in the north and in the south of the town on hills. The town gates are, however, received. Two of the gates, Sungnyemun and Dongdaemun, are spaciously known. During the Joseon dynasty every gate was opened and closed daily. A loud bell was rung to signal this.
The town was repeatedly of North Korean troops taken and conquered back again in the Koreakrieg. After the war and the splitting of Korea Seoul became the capital of South Korea.
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