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Seoul


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Names

Sŏul

Kyŏngsŏng

Keijō

Keijo

Seúl

Seoul

Seul

Hanyang

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Founded by King T'aejo 1390s; burned in Japanese invasion of 1529, rebuilt 1867; modernized & developed under Japanese rule 1910-1945; extensively damaged in Korean War, but largely rebuilt since 1953; regional capital of Seoul special city.
Authority
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Rand McNally Atlas (1991); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Choi Sang-ah (Korean, active United States, born 1971)

Active

Lim HyoungTae (Korean, born 1975)

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