Seoul
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- Other Names: 漢陽 (K: Hanyang; J: Kan'yô), 漢城 (K: Hanseong, J: Kanjô), 京城 (K: Gyeongseong, J: Keijô)
- Japanese: ソウル (Souru)
Seoul is the capital of the Republic of Korea (i.e. South Korea), and was previously the royal capital of the Joseon Dynasty and of the Korean Empire.
Seoul (then called Hanseong) was made the royal capital in 1394, following the fall of the Goryeo Kingdom.
The city was captured by samurai forces under Konishi Yukinaga and Katô Kiyomasa in 1592/5.
A Japanese legation was established in the city in 1880.[1]
Seoul was renamed Keijô (K: Gyeongseong) by the Japanese during the colonial period, from 1910 to 1945.
References
- ↑ Robert Hellyer, Defining Engagement, Harvard University Press (2009), 245.
