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50 unusual facts about Seoul


2001 IIHF Asian Oceanic U18 Championship

The Division I tournament began on 8 March 2001 in Seoul, South Korea.

The Division I and Division II tournaments took place between 8 and 11 March 2001 in Seoul, South Korea.

A Hundred Year Legacy

Min Chae-won is the eldest granddaughter of a family living in an outskirts of Seoul who have been running a noodle factory for three generations.

ABU Song Festivals

Twenty-six songs from sixteen nations competed at the Radio Song Festival, held in the South Korean capital, Seoul on 14 October 2012, while seven nations competed in the ABU TV Song Festival.

Ad Genius Lee Tae-baek

Having come to Seoul from the countryside with nothing but a high school diploma and a gift for drawing, he starts out by handing out ads in the street and wearing sandwich boards.

Al DeRogatis

DeRogatis was among several veteran announcers who returned to call some NFL telecasts for NBC in September 1988, while many of the network's regular broadcasters were busy calling that year's Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Archer Butler Hulbert

Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea in 1897 and '98: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited Far East American newspapers.

Baayork Lee

Other projects include becoming a talent scout for Tokyo Disneyland, opening a musical theater school in Seoul, South Korea, and producing.

Bridal Mask

The setting takes place in Seoul, Korea during the 1930s Japanese colonial era.

British Supreme Court for China and Japan

In Korea, Great Britain obtained extraterritorial rights in 1883 under a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce which was signed in Hanyang on 26 November 1883.

Childless Comfort

It is about three generations of the Ahn family who are all living in one house in the suburbs of Seoul, and how they deal with the societal discrimination that their smart and highly educated, eldest granddaughter faces, when she became a single mother.

Crown Prince Maui

The present Nagan Kims only have 130 families currently in Seoul.

Donald Stone Macdonald

There, he served as the Director of the Korea Desk and in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, dividing his time between Washington and Seoul.

Double Chooz

In November 2011, first results of the experiment were presented at the LowNu conference in Seoul.

Foreign relations of Burma

However, during the late 1970s the relationship with Pyongyang became slightly stronger than that with Seoul, as Ne Win and the Burma Socialist Programme Party forged fraternal ties with Kim Il-sung and the Workers' Party of Korea.

Global Christian Foreign School

Global Christian Foreign School (commonly GCFS, or Korean 지구촌기독외국인학교 and formerly Global Christian School) is a private, international K-12 school in Seoul, South Korea that was founded in 1996.

Going for Gold

The prize in the first season were tickets for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul (i.e. Gold Medals).

Hattori Kazutada

He fought in the Bunroku Campaign in Korea (1592-1593), successfully taking the Korean capital of Seoul.

Hyundai Fomex

Hyundai Fomex Co., Ltd is a company based in Seoul, South Korea which specializes in manufacturing photo&video lighting system under the brand name “Fomex”.

I Need Romance 2012

The series follows the everyday lives of work, love and friendship of thirty-something women and men in Seoul.

Jan Lorenc

Lorenc+Yoo Design is located in the historic Mill Village in Roswell, Georgia and has collaborative associations with Journey Communications Inc. of Philadelphia where they handle their trade show exhibits, and with Box&Cox of Seoul, Korea with whom they handle their Asian opportunities and are currently working in Korea and Japan.

Jang-deok

When Jang Geum returns to the palace, Jang-deok goes with her to Hanyang and lives in a public residential clinic she owns.

Kim Jin-hi

She continued her studies with National Living Treasures from The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul, as well as with Korea's leading ethnomusicologists, eventually earning a B.A. degree in Korean traditional music from Seoul National University in 1980.

Korea Newswire

It was established by Dongho Shin, a Korean journalist, and Mijae Ko, a Korean marketing specialist, in July 2004, and is headquartered in the city center of Seoul.

Korean Contemporary Christian music

On November 2, 1969, at Gyeongdong Church in Seoul, Korean pop singers (Cho Young Nam, Choi Young Hee and Twinpolio) sang gospel songs on Sunday service, which was controversial among Korean Christians.

Kyungnam University

Founded in 1946 as Kookmin College in Seoul, the tumultuous Korean War years created a situation in which it was more advantageous to move south than to stay in the Seoul area.

Lee Wan

Lee enlist for mandatory military service on 12 July 2010, at the Nonsan military training camp for five weeks of basic training followed by active-duty soldier, for 21 months, with the Defense Media Agency of the Ministry of National Defense in Yongsan-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul.

Megat Burhainuddin bin Megat Abdul Rahman

Following this he attended other courses in several Universities, including Health Planning in University of Toronto, Canada; Health Economics in London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, Management Training in Central Officer Training Institute in Seoul, Korea, and Advanced Management in Harvard Business School, Harvard University, USA.

Mitch Richmond

Before coming to the NBA, he played for the U.S. men's national basketball team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning the bronze medal.

Montana Skies

The duo recently completed a cross country tour of the US in the spring of 2004 and made their international debut last summer in Seoul, Korea.

Music of Korea

Aak is played only at certain very rare concerts, such as the Sacrifice to Confucius in Seoul.

Park Myeong-yi

After Seo is arrested, Park and her daughter escape to Hanyang, where Park reunites with Han, now Court Lady Han(Han Sang-goon).

Principles for Responsible Investment

The PRI Initiative has a Secretariat of around 50 staff based mostly in London, with staff based in New York, as well regional offices in Seoul, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Cape Town.

Samsaengi

Samsaengi is set in the 70's in Seoul and tells the story of a woman (played by Hong Ah-reum) who becomes a promising oriental herbal doctor after going through many ups and downs in her life.

Sankyo Flute Company

A number of prominent flautists, such as Walter Auer of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Julien Beaudiment of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, John Curran of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, and Young-ji Song of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, play Sankyo flutes.

Seoul Girls' High School

Seoul Girls' High School (서울여자고등학교) is a high school in Mapo district, Seoul, South Korea.

Sheila Sondergard

Sheila Sondergard (born April 24, 1980) is a singer-songwriter, born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maui, Hawaii, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and Central America.

Sinmunno

Sinmunno (신문로 新門路) which literally means "a new gate on a road" may refer to one of the dongs or neighbourhoods in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea or to the two combined areas as a whole.

South Florida Bulls

A nationally recognized women's sailing program at USF is coached by Allison Jolly the gold medalist in the first olympic women's sailing event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Stefan Hakenberg

His work is an ongoing reflection on musical styles of today that he finds along an international career path that has taken him from Cologne in the 80s to Boston in the 90s to Seoul at the turn of the millennium.

Tempography

In 2008 the project was hosted by the Gallery Factory in Seoul, Republic of Korea, accompanied by a symposium/workshop.

The Korea EP

The group made a trip to tour in Seoul, South Korea in August 2005 and decided to release an EP exclusively in South Korea.

Tibero

On September 2013, at a press event in Seoul, South Korea, Tibero 6 was introduced as the upgrade of its database management system for big data solution.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Underwood International College

Underwood International College (acronym: UIC) was founded in 2006 as a constituent college of Yonsei University, based in Seoul and Incheon, South Korea.

Universal Ballet

The Universal Ballet was founded in Seoul, South Korea in 1984.

William Teeling

Throughout his Parliamentary career Teeling remained on the backbenches, but his expertise on foreign affairs was acknowledged (he was a Freeman of Seoul in Korea).

Yom Sang-seop

Yom was born in 1887 in Seoul and studied at the High School level in Japan in 1912.

Yongcheol Shin

He was a visiting professor at the SungKunKwan University, Seoul, and Wits University, Johannesburg.

Yun Bong-gil

In May, 1946, his remains were excavated by Korean residents in Japan, transferred to Seoul and given funeral rites.


1951 in the People's Republic of China

The resulting Chinese defeat at Seoul and Soyang River brought the Communists side to the armistice negotiation.

Bae Hyun-jin

Bae graduated from Sookmyung Women's University's Seoul campus with a degree in Communications and Korean Language and Literature after graduating from Dongsan High School in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

Batman: Earth One

He has a daughter living in Seoul, South Korea with her mother, where Alfred had previously worked at a security firm.

Bernhard Seliger

Bernhard Seliger is the book review editor of North Korean Review and a representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation branch in Seoul, South Korea.

Boris Grinyov

In 2008 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science by Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea) for his contribution in establishing scientific and technical cooperation between Ukraine and South Korea.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Brian Beaman

Beaman eventually became a member of the rifle shooting team for the NCAA Division I, until he was approached by U.S. national pistol coach Erich Buljung, silver medalist at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, to switch from rifle to pistol.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Cheugugi

There is also Ma-jeon-gyo(Bridge) which is generally known as Supyo-gyo across the Cheonggyecheon(stream flows center of Joseon Era's Seoul City(Inside area of the Seoul wall), near the Gyungbok Palace).

Copper peptide GHK-Cu

In 2009, a group of researchers from the Seoul National University (Republic of Korea) demonstrated that the copper-peptide GHK-Cu stimulated proliferation of keratinocytes and increased expression of integrins and p63 protein in the epidermal stem cells.

Cycling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's points race

These are the official results of the Men's Points Race at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, for which the final was held on September 24, 1988.

Dmitry Lobkov

At the 2004 World Single Distance Championships in Seoul he achieved the silver medal at this distance, only allowing Jeremy Wotherspoon to be faster.

Edgar Itt

Edgar Itt (born June 8, 1967, Gedern) was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke.

Edwin Q. White

He was sent to Seoul to help the AP's South Korean staff, who were dealing with increasing restriction on the media from the government of former President Chun Doo-hwan.

Egerton Marcus

Egerton Marcus (born February 2, 1965 in Goed Fortuin, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) is a retired Canadian boxer who won the silver medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Eunkwang Girls' High School

Eunkwang Girls' High School is a private girls' high school located in Seoul, South Korea.

Fendi

Many of Fendi's key boutiques are located in major cities like New York, Paris, London, Milan, Seoul, and Tokyo, although they also have 2 outlets in the United States; one in Orlando and another in Central Valley, NY, at the Woodbury Common Premium Outlets.

History of FC Seoul

As a result, the club did not leave Seoul but moved to the city of Anyang, a satellite city of Seoul, and was now known as the Anyang LG Cheetahs.

InnoPath Software

innoPath is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with international offices worldwide, including Nacka, Sweden; Beijing, China; Richmond, London, United Kingdom; Tokyo, Japan; and Seoul, Korea.

Jung Il-woo

Son of a former television news anchorman, Jung Il-woo studied Broadcasting at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, later transferring to the Theater & Film department of Hanyang University.

Jung-Mo Lee

Then he worked as a Professor at the Department of Psychology and at the Graduate Program for Cognitive Science of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.

Kim Kaphwan

Namdaemun literally means "South Gate" in Korean, As one of Korean National treasure, Namdaemun was built in 1398 and was used as both barrier and gateway from suburb to the city of Seoul.

Kim Kwang-kyu

Since 1980 he has been a professor in the German department of Hanyang University (Seoul) and he has published translations of 19th century German poems (1980), of poems by Bertolt Brecht (1985), of radio dramas by Günter Eich (1986), and of poems by Günter Eich (1987).

Kirov Academy of Ballet

It was founded in 1990 under its original name, The Universal Ballet Academy, due to its affiliation with The Universal Ballet in Seoul, South Korea.

Kyungsung FC–Pyongyang FC rivalry

The Kyungsung FC–Pyongyang FC rivalry was a football rivalry in the early 20th century between Seoul and Pyongyang which are two big cities in Korea.

Lia Dekker

A week before the European Championships, Dekker broke the national record in the 200 m breaststroke, which was set by Linda Moes during the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Machold Rare Violins

Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.

Marianne Heske

She is represented in various galleries, including the National Gallery of Norway, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Bonnefanten Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul.

Nam Sang-mi

Nam Sang-mi was working in a fast food restaurant near Hanyang University, Seoul in the fall of 2001 when someone posted her personal photos on the internet.

Patrick Kühl

Patrick Kühl (born March 26, 1968 in Güstrow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a former medley swimmer from East Germany, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley for the GDR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Rainer Henkel

Rainer Henkel (born 27 February 1964 in Opladen) is a former freestyle swimmer from Germany, who won the bronze medal in the 4×200 m freestyle relay for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.

Richard De Wert

Landing with the First Marine Division at Inchon in September 1950, Hospitalman De Wert participated in operations to liberate the city of Seoul.

Ross McElwee

Retrospectives include the Museum of Modern Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; Retrospectives have also been held in Paris, Tehran, Moscow, Seoul, Lisbon, and Quito.

Seoul Anglican Cathedral

1890 - Bishop John Corfe was consecrated in England and arrived in Seoul as bishop of the Korean Diocese.

Sungji Hong

Sungji Hong studied composition with Kyungsun Suh at the Hanyang University in Seoul, where she graduated with honors in composition.

The Terror Live

One day during his morning show, Yoon receives a peculiar phone call threatening to blow up the Mapo Bridge, a major bridge that crosses the Han River and connects Mapo District and Yeouido, Seoul's main business and investment banking district; it is also just outside Yoon's studio building.

Tower Palace One

Tower Palace One is an apartment complex completed in 2002 in Seoul, South Korea.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Uigwe

In 1993, then-French President François Mitterrand returned one copy during a visit to Seoul to sell its high-speed TGV train technology; with the promised to return the remaining collection.

Vlastimil Černý

Vlastimil Černý (born April 7, 1963 in Vyškov, Czechoslovakia) is a former international butterfly and freestyle swimmer, who competed for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

WiBro

On April 3, 2007, KT launched WiBro coverage for all areas of Seoul including all subway lines.

Working Group on Women in Physics

To carry out this charge the Working Group has organized three Conferences (Paris, 2002, Rio de Janeiro, 2005 and Seoul, 2008) gathering teams from more than 60 countries, raising data about the situation of women in physics in different countries and distributing a survey (organized by the American Institute of Physics) about the status of women in physics.

Xóchitl Escobedo

Xóchitl Escobedo (born September 17, 1968) is a retired female tennis player from Mexico, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Yangju highway incident

Father Mun Jeong Hyeon, a Roman Catholic priest active in the anti-USFK movement, began a hunger strike outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul.