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	Seoul - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Seoul
		Seoul became the capital of the whole of Korea and the seat of the Yi dynasty in 1394.
		Seoul is the home of a 14th-century Yi palace, the National Museum (1986), a national theatre, and a number of universities, including Seoul National (1885), Hanyang (1939), and Yonsei (1945).
		From 1910 to 1945, Seoul was the colonial capital during the Japanese occupation of Korea, when the country was extensively modernized.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Seoul (467 words)

	WorldTravelGate.net® - The History of Seoul (Soul), South Korea.
		With national liberation on August 15, 1945, the City was given the official name of Seoul, which is derived from an ancient word meaning "Capital." In 1946, Seoul was upgraded to the status of the Special City placed directly under the control of the national government of Korea.
		The area of the City took the form of a town about 2,000 years ago when it was chosen as the capital of the Paekche Kingdom (18 B.C. 660 A.D.), one of the three ancient states on the Korean Peninsula, and was called Wirye-Song.
		Seoul further comprises 25 "gus (districts)" and 522 "dongs (villages)" as administrative divisions.
	www.asiatravelling.net /korea_south/seoul/seoul_history.htm (1001 words)

	Seoul - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		Seoul is the capital of South Korea and was, until 1945, the capital of all of Korea.
		Seoul has nine subway lines, nearly 200 bus routes and six major highways that interlink every district of the city with one another and with the neighboring metropolitan area, which is the world's most populous.
		Highlights of Seoul: by Korean National Tourism Organization
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /seoul.htm (1952 words)

	Culture Capsules: ESL Student Writing Project
		The subway (1), which is eight lines (2) and one national railway line, covers the entire area of Seoul and goes to rural areas nearby Seoul.
		Seoul might be much more crowded than the capital of your country, but the transportation is very convenient and not expensive.
		This bus doesn’t go everywhere in Seoul, but it goes to all the famous places (7)in Seoul, and the main locations are downtown, Namdeamun, which is the first national treasure in South Korea, Iteawon, where many foreigners live in, and so on.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/culturecapsules2002/otaniweb/otani.html (1750 words)

	Culture Capsules: ESL Student Writing Project
		The subway (1), which is eight lines (2) and one national railway line, covers the entire area of Seoul and goes to rural areas nearby Seoul.
		Seoul might be much more crowded than the capital of your country, but the transportation is very convenient and not expensive.
		This bus doesn’t go everywhere in Seoul, but it goes to all the famous places (7)in Seoul, and the main locations are downtown, Namdeamun, which is the first national treasure in South Korea, Iteawon, where many foreigners live in, and so on.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/culturecapsules2002/otaniweb/otani.html (1750 words)

	South Korea Hotels - Tower Hotel Seoul - South Korea, Hotels & Resort in South Korea, South Korea Hotels
		Kimpo Int'l Airport SEL 28 km, National Theater opposite hotel, Seoul Station 2 km, Dongdaemoon Shopping Area 1.5 km, Myungdong 2 km.
		TOWER HOTEL is the location for meetings, speciaI functions and relaxations in the fresh air as well as the high level health facilities, situated amidst 8 landscaped acres on the foot of Mt. Namsan in the center of Seoul Capital City.
		Tower Hotel's banquet halls are perfectly equipped with illumination and sound facilities necessary for all kinds of international events and conventions to be held in the new millennium.
	oxfordtravels.com /asia/southkorea/towerhotel (1750 words)

	donga.com [english donga]
		In addition, seven major universities located in capital area, including Korea University, Yonsei University, and Kyunghee University, plan to reduce their entrance quota by 3,170 (10 percent) until 2007, which is expected to increase competition in entering high-ranked universities.
		The 10 percent reduction in the entrance quota of high-ranked universities, excluding Seoul National University, is expected to increase the competition among highly qualified students in entering these universities.
		Pusan National University and Miryang National University plan to focus on nanotechnology (NT) and biological technology (BT) by using the existing infrastructure that was built for supporting agricultural colleges.
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2005070509968 (1750 words)

	Gunpo
		It is part of the Seoul National Capital Area.
		Seoul Subway Line 1, which connects Seoul with Cheonan, passes through the town, as does Line 4, which intersects with Line 1 at Geumjeong Station.
		In addition, the city is home to Gunpo Station, which stands on the Gyeongbu Line which runs between Seoul and Busan.
	www.tocatch.info /en/Gunpo.htm (73 words)

	Welcome to Expatown
		Currently, the Seoul subway system is made up of Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 operated by the Seoul Subway Corporation, and Lines 5,6,7 and 8 operated by the Urban Railroad Corporation, and the Capital Area Railroads including Gyeongin (Seoul-Incheon), Gyeongsu (Seoul-Suwon), Gwacheon, Ilsan and Bundang Lines run by the National Railway.
		They carry 8.78 million passengers a day, including those of capital area railroad systems, assuming a share of 32.3% of all commuters.
		The subway in Seoul was inaugurated on August 15, 1974, for the 7.8km section between Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station.
	www.expatown.com /livingtips/transportation.asp (2823 words)

	News World AUGUST. 2004
		The site for locating an administrative capital was later tentatively chosen as an area in Yeongi-Gongju in South Chungcheong Province among the shortlist of four candidate sites, announced in June.
		The location of the site, at the center among Daejeon, South Chungcheong, North Chungcheong areas, is expected to accelerate balanced national development and the people?
		In particular, the capital site is approximate to the high-speed railway and Cheongju Airport, with its excellent access by such roads and railways as Dangjin-Sangju Expressway, Seoul-Busan Expressway, Seoul-Busan railroad.
	www.newsworld.co.kr /cont/0408/14.html (2823 words)

	Culture Capsules: ESL Student Writing Project
		The subway (1), which is eight lines (2) and one national railway line, covers the entire area of Seoul and goes to rural areas nearby Seoul.
		Tokyo and Seoul are the capital of these countries; so we have very heavy traffic, with similar problems in both countries.
		Japan and Korea, especially Tokyo, which is the capital of Japan, and Seoul, which is the capital of Korea, are two of the worst traffic cities in the world.
	www.lclark.edu /~krauss/culturecapsules2002/otaniweb/otani.html (1750 words)

	Korea Update
		"The housing prices in Chungcheong are less than half of those in the Seoul metropolitan area," said the researcher Kim.
		Land prices in many parts of the Chungcheong provinces have nearly doubled since President Roh Moo-hyun took office, pledging to move the capital away from Seoul.
		They attributed the change to government regulations that limit property development in the Seoul metropolitan area.
	www.koreaemb.org /archive/2004/7_2/econ/econ6.asp (1750 words)

	donga.com [english donga]
		Since the Constitutional Court’s ruling, there have been around 40 demonstrations and conferences in the Chungcheong area, mostly in Yeongi and Gongju, the cities that were nominated as the new administrative capitals.
		The Emergency Committee for the Administrative Capital Relocation Plan in Yeongi is planning to set November 22 as a “National Decision of Administrative Capital Relocation Day” and hold a large-scale assembly that day at the Jochiwon Station plaza.
		Governor Shim is emphasizing the necessity of a new administrative capital in his visits to universities around North Jeolla Province and Seoul, saying, “A widespread bond of sympathy is important in promoting the administrative capital relocation,”
	english.donga.com /srv/service.php3?biid=2004112061728 (1750 words)

	Gyeonggi-do - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its name denotes an area within a 500-li (200-km) radius (gi; 기; 畿) of the royal capital (gyeong; 경; 京) Hanseong (modern-day Seoul).
		(Hanseong was both the national capital of Korea, and the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do.)
		Seoul City history article on Hanseong and 22 other late 19th-century districts (in Korean)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gyeonggi (545 words)

	[YEAR-END REVIEW]Political forces undergo changes
		The plans include a special administrative town to accommodate all government agencies except the presidential office and the National Assembly in the originally proposed capital area, Yeongi-Gongju in South Chungcheong Province.
		Two controversial nuclear tests by the South - plutonium extraction in 1982 and uranium enrichment in 2000- invoked international concern and undermined the South's mediating role in six-party nuclear talks, even though the South stressed the experiments were conducted purely for research purposes.
		Another major blow for the Roh administration was in July when South Korean translator Kim Sun-il was kidnapped and later killed by Islamic insurgents in Iraq after the government refused to accept their demand to withdraw Seoul's plan to deploy troops in the postwar country.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=10559 (2975 words)

	National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure: Archives
		The tutorial will be held in Taedok Science City, a major research and development area in Taejon, South Korea's fifth largest city, which is about 100 miles south of Seoul, the capital.
		Korea Telecom also maintains a research institute in the science city area.
		KAIST is the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, a graduate school begun 20 years ago to advance Korean science and technology.
	www.npaci.edu /online/v1.4/chinoy.html (409 words)

	SOS Children's Villages - Japan - Select a village
		South Korea - Select a village : Daegu Seoul Suncheon Capital: Seoul Area: 98,480 km²...
		As a result of the group's strong commitment a national SOS Children's Villages association was founded and an office established in Matsumoto in 1986.
		SOS Children's Village is convinced that many friends in Japan would like to see the organisation's activities revived in their country.
	www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/japan_select_village.html (409 words)

	Gyeonggi-do -
		Seoul—South Korea's largest city and national capital—is located in the heart of the province, but is separately administered as a provincial-level Special City.
		The regional name for Gyeonggi-do is Sudogwon, which properly denotes the Seoul-Incheon conurbation, and that built-up part of the Gyeonggi-do Province that forms part of the same continuous urban area.
		The province is bounded on the east by Gangwon-do province, on the south by Chungcheongbuk-do and Chungcheongnam-do provinces, and on the west by Incheon and the Yellow Sea.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Gyeonggi (599 words)

	Incheon - Psychology Central
		Incheon is sometimes regarded as part of the greater Seoul metropolitan area due to the close distance of the capital, and the fact that the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is linked to the Incheon Subway system.
		Incheon has one subway line and also a branch line of Korean National Railroad is considered as a suburban line.
		The USS Inchon is named for the tide-turning battle that ensued.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Inchon (404 words)

	South Korea
		The first phase, serving cities in the Seoul area, has been open since 1992.
		Major Cities: Seoul (capital), Pusan, Taegu, Inchon, Kwangju
		It plans to complete a national transmission loop with extensions to remote cities by 1999.
	www.converger.com /eiacab/skorea.htm (3006 words)

	Venues of FIFA World Cup 2002 - Daejeon - by La Cancha-News On World Cup 2002
		Daejeon has risen to become a dynamic and prosperous urban centre, the second administrative capital next to Seoul.
		Daejeon has several interesting tourist destinations, including culture-rich Buyeo and Gongju, and Mt. Gyeryong National Park, all of which belong to the Baekje (18 BC - AD 660) Culture Zone.
		Archaeological evidence suggests that there has been a settlement at Daejeon since Palaeolithic times, when settlers were no doubt attracted by the area's low hills, wide plains and abundant streams and rivers.
	www.lacancha.com /Venues_Daejeon.html (3006 words)

	Seoul Subway Line 4
		4號線 } Seoul Subway Line 4 is a long line crossing from the southwest to the northeast across the Capital Metropolitan Area.
		Seoul Station -- transfer to the Korean National Railroad and Line 1
		The southern portion of the line is divided into the Gwacheon and Ansan Lines, but this does not affect the trains which run on it, most of which run all the way from one end of the line to the other.
	en.mcfly.org /Seoul+Subway+Line+4 (177 words)

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