Seoul Sentence Examples

The capital is the inland city of Seoul, with a population of nearly 200,000.

There are also mints at Osaka, Bangkok and Teheran, and the Seoul mint was at work in 1904.

Under Japanese auspices a railway from Chemulpo to Seoul was completed in 1900.

The Dai Ichi Ginko (First Bank of Japan), which has a branch in Seoul and agencies in other towns, was made the government central treasury, and its notes were recognized as legal tender in Korea.

He revived the name Ch'ao-Hsien, changed the capital from Song-do to Seoul, organized an administrative system, which with some modifications continued till 1895, and exists partially still, carried out vigorous reforms, disestablished Buddhism, made merit in Chinese literary examinations the basis of appointment to office, made Confucianism the state religion, abolished human sacrifices and the burying of old men alive, and introduced that Confucian system of education, polity, and social order which has dominated Korea for five centuries.

Leopards are numerous, and have even been shot within the walls of Seoul.

One is very much like another, and nearly all their streets are replicas of the better alleys of Seoul.

Japanese steamers ply on the Han between Chemulpo and Seoul.

At the close of the 19th century the fees annually paid to these persons were estimated at £150,000; there were in Seoul 1000 sorceresses, and very large sums are paid to the male sorcerers and geomancers.

The "Royal Examinations" in Chinese literature held in Seoul up to 1894, which were the entrance to official position, being abolished, the desire for a purely Chinese education diminished.

In Seoul there were established an imperial English school with two foreign teachers, a reorganized Confucian college, a normal college under a very efficient foreign principal, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and French schools, chiefly linguistic, several Korean primary schools, mission boarding-schools, and the Pai Chai College connected with the American Methodist Episcopal Church, under imperial patronage, and subsidized by government, in which a liberal education of a high class was given and En-mun receives much attention.

Seoul, near the border, is vulnerable to long-range artillery.

The IMF demanded that Seoul open Korean companies to foreign ownership.

Options for reaching the resort include self-drive, bus or shuttle bus transportation from Seoul.

Seoul is mainly a skyscraper city now with 23 million inhabitants - about 46% of the country 's population.

Besides the familiar Grand Valley Speedway and Deep Forest raceway (among returning favorites), you can pick city courses like Hong Kong and Seoul as well as real-life tracks Suzuka and the Fuji Speedway.

As is all the rage in Korea, particularly in metropolitan areas like Seoul, is Mobile TV, usually powered by something called DMB, or "digital media broadcasting."

Choi was born in Seoul, Korea, and grew up in Virginia.

A resident-general represented Japan at Seoul, to direct diplomatic affairs, the first being the Marquis Ito.

Seoul and several of the oldest cities were captured, and in some instances destroyed, the country was desolated, and the art treasures and the artists were carried to Japan.

Seoul was opened in 1884 to foreign residence, and the provinces to foreign travel, and the diplomatic agents of the contracting powers obtained a recognized status at the capital.

Somewhat serious emeutes followed in Seoul and elsewhere, and the Japanese proposals for a new convention, increasing the powers of the resident general, had to be presented to the cabinet under a strong guard.

Three big ones are at the following amusement parks, or fun parks, near Seoul.

Seoul has some wide streets of shops, hundreds of narrow alleys, and is very fairly clean.

The ports and other towns open are Seoul, Chemulpo, Fusan, Won-san, Chin-nampo, Mok-po, Kun-san, Ma-san-po, Song-chin, Wiju, Yong-ampo, and Phyong-yang.

This became a branch of the longer line from Fusan to Seoul (286 m.), the concession for which was granted in 1898.

Korea is connected with the Chinese and Japanese telegraph systems by a Japanese line from Chemulpo via Seoul to Fusan, and by a line acquired by the empire between Seoul and Wiju.

Hospitals, orphanages, schools and an admirable college in Seoul have been founded, along with tri-lingual (Chinese, Korean and English) printing-presses; religious, historical and scientific works and much of the Bible have been translated into En-mun, and periodicals of an enlightened nature in the Korean script are also circulated.

A railway from Seoul to Wiju was planned under French engineers, but the work was started by the Korean government.

The main roads centring in Seoul are seldom fit even for the passage of ox-carts, and the secondary roads are bad bridle-tracks, frequently degenerating into "rock ladders."

The state has also lines from Seoul to the open ports, &c. Korea has regular steam communication with ports in Japan, the Gulf of Pechili, Shanghai, &c. Her own mercantile marine is considerable.

Under a treaty signed at Seoul on the 17th of November 1905, Japan directed the external relations of Korea, and Japanese diplomatic and consular representatives took charge of Korean subjects and interests in foreign countries.