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2020 New Year’s Address On the corner of the road to major change – A fair start line guaranteed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government – 1. It is a time of major change. We bade farewell to 2019 and welcomed 2020. The economy and public welfare have not been kind to us. Korea’s economy is...   Read more

Seoul will be publishing 2020 Changing Life in Seoul to offer a glimpse of the projects that will be launched in 2020, public facilities that will soon open, and new policies related to citizens’ lives. The 2020 Changing Life in Seoul will introduce 58 projects in 4 fields: ① 10 projects in the “Safe City,”...   Read more

Once again, the best Seoul policy chosen by citizens for this year was ‘Ttareungi.’ According to the results of the online and offline citizen vote on ｢Top 10 Encouraging Seoul News of 2019｣ conducted in November, ‘Ttareungi’ amassed 20,309 votes (6.4%) to rank no. 1 for three consecutive years. The citizen vote on the ｢Top...   Read more

From November 19-26, 2019, Seoul conducted the “2019 Vote for Excellent Policies of Seoul” targeting non-Korean voters living in Korea or abroad. The online poll opened on six foreign language websites of Seoul. A total of 11,872 individuals cast their vote, among which those from English-speaking regions amounted to 73 percent, demonstrating the highest rate...   Read more

Soprano Sumi Jo was appointed as an honorary ambassador of Seoul. The appointment was offered after she starred as the main model in a 2019 international promotional video for Seoul. The appointment ceremony took place at 11 a.m. on November 4 (Mon.), 2019 at Seoul City Hall. Sumi Jo received an appointment plaque from the...   Read more

The 4th Seoul Brand Forum will take place on October 30, 2019 on the 8th floor of the Multipurpose Hall in Seoul City Hall. Celebrating the 4th anniversary of the city’s brand, “I‧SEOUL‧U,” the forum will become the perfect arena to search for ways of communication between the city brand and citizens from various perspectives...   Read more

Five active global influencers, including beauty creators, based in foreign countries who have thousands or millions of subscribers will become honorary ambassadors for Seoul who will advertise Seoul to the global community. Those five include ▴ VRZ0, the online prince in Thailand and a creator in the fields of entertainment and game who has 6.02...   Read more

On the occasion of the 100th National Sports Festival, the city of Seoul has extended a special invitation to 14 descendants of persons of distinguished service to the independence of Korea who are living overseas, in Cuba, Mexico, China, and the United States. The special invitation was made with the purpose of reflecting the historical...   Read more

From September 20-21, 2019, Seoul Plaza will turn into a grand-scale venue for an offline discussion of policies suggested by citizens online. Seoul will be hosting 2019 Together Seoul Policy Fair in Seoul Plaza under the theme, “Democratic Seoul, Whenever and Wherever.” It will be a large-scale discussion festival in which regular citizens will be...   Read more

Seoul declares the “coexistence between Seoul and other provinces” together with 29 local governments in recognition of the necessity for special measures to address the polarization and imbalance between Seoul and other regions. To this end, the city has announced a comprehensive plan for the coexistence between Seoul and other provinces and has plans to...   Read more

To commemorate the pain, struggle and courage of the women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese forces, a memorial statue was erected near the former site of a Japanese imperial shrine on Namsan Mountain (beside the Namsan Library, 100-266, Hoehyeon-dong 1-ga), a place where the pain of Japan’s atrocities can be felt to this...   Read more

The city of Seoul will be greatly reinforcing support for the descendants of independence activists who sacrificed and devoted themselves to the nation’s independence. The city will be supporting the descendants who are economically challenged with the aim of providing them with honorable and stable lives through respectful treatment and support, in order to compensate...   Read more