Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

He is also a professor of mathematics at Seoul National University in South Korea.

It is located on a campus at Hoegiro 85, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea.

Many countries sought to emulate Pakistan's economic planning strategy and one of them, South Korea, copied the city's second " Five-Year Plan " and world Financial Centre in Seoul is designed and modeled after Karachi.

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

Traditional Italian-style thin-crust pizza is served in the many Italian restaurants in Seoul and other major cities.

The Han River, which flows through Seoul, is 514 kilometers long, and the Geum River is 401 kilometers long.

Seoul's subway system is the oldest system in the country, with the Seoul Station – Cheongnyangni section of Line 1 opening in 1974.

The Kukkiwon has its own unique physical building that contains the administrative offices of Kukkiwon ( World Taekwondo Headquarters ) in Seoul, South Korea and is the system of taekwondo.

* August 20 – A thousands-large protest in Seoul, calling for reunification with North Korea, is broken up by riot police.

** The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is released from prison in Seoul, South Korea.

* November 29 – The capital city of the Joseon Dynasty in present-day Korea is moved from Gaegyeong ( now Gaeseong ) to Hanseong ( now Seoul ).

The Center for Free Enterprise ( Korea ) is a free market think tank located in Seoul, South Korea, with pages in English and Korean.

A Taco Bell had long been a presence at the U. S. Army's Yongsan Garrison, which is off-limits to non-military people, and for a time there was a tongue-in-cheek grassroots campaign by non-Korean, non-military foreigners in Seoul to get another Taco Bell location.

Hyundai Motor Company () (,, modernity ; ) is a South Korean multinational automaker headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

As of March 2011, the UPI. com website reports that the organization is headquartered in Washington, D. C., with other addresses in Seoul, South Korea ; Beirut, Lebanon ; Tokyo, Japan ; Santiago, Chile ; and Hong Kong, China.

" By far the largest among these in terms of population is the capital, Seoul, called a teukbyeol-si ( 특별시 ; literally, special city ), which is home to more than 20 % of the entire population of the country.

It is a notified fact that around 35 ~ 40 % of Korean man in the rural area outside Seoul are engaged with wives from different countries.

As of 2011, there are 21 megacities in existence, which is the official figure despite the list below containing 27 megacities – with conurbations such as Mumbai, Tokyo, Seoul, New York City, and Mexico City having populations in excess of 20 million inhabitants each.

Rhee's former Seoul residence, Ihwajang, is currently used for the presidential memorial museum.

Its main base is Anchorage International Airport, Alaska, with hubs at Los Angeles International Airport, Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport and Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea.

Kim was again put under house arrest upon his return to Seoul, but resumed his role as one of the principal leaders of the opposition.

The company operates principal offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Toronto.

Apart from its principal role as a governing body, Kukkiwon is an important tourist attraction for visitors to Seoul.

As the only mosque in Seoul, it has become somewhat of a tourist attraction for Koreans to visit on weekends to hear talks given on Islam.

In South Korea, Park Jung-soo was fined 2 million South Korean won by the Seoul Central District Court for spray-painting a rat on posters of the G-20 Summit a few days before the event in November 2011.

On August 2, 2004, Terra announced that it was selling Lycos to Seoul, South Korea-based Daum Communications Corporation for $ 95. 4 million in cash ($ million today ), less than 2 % of Terra's initial multi-billion dollar investment.

In March, U. N. forces retook Seoul, and the war essentially became a bloody stalemate for the next two years.

Actions such as an attempted assassination of ROK president Park Chung-Hee in Seoul failed, and Kim publicly disclaimed any responsibility for them.

In a sudden gesture, the government proclaimed a joint communiqué for reunification with North Korea on July 4, 1972, and held Red Cross talks in Seoul and Pyongyang.

The government made many efforts for cultural development: the National Museum of Korea, Seoul Arts Center, National Museum of Contemporary Art were all constructed during this time.

The 1986 Asian Games were held successfully, and the bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul was successful as well.

Seoul even froze its budget for a short while.

Participants of the 2010 G-20 Seoul summit gather for a conventional " family photo ".

Moon formally founded the church in Seoul on May 1, 1954, calling it " The Holy Spirit ( ual ) Association for the Unification of World Christianity.

The Blessing ceremony was first held in 1961 for 36 couples in Seoul, South Korea by the Moons shortly after their own marriage in 1960.

In 1992 Sun Myung Moon gave the wedding blessing for 30, 000 couples at the Seoul Olympic Stadium and for 13, 000 at the Yankee Stadium.

* January 18 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.

The pre-production testing model was unveiled in Seoul in September 2010, when the first of 30 units were delivered to South Korean government agencies for field testing.

The school, reputed for its international orientation, has partnerships with the best universities all over the world, such as Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Seoul National University, and University of Peking

From there he went on to play for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

However, when he did get to go to the Olympics, for the Seoul games in 1988 and the Barcelona games in 1992, he impressed international audiences with his skills and savvy.

In the 1980s David Geiger designed Seoul Olympic Gymnastics Arena for the 1988 Summer Olympics.