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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

Seoul will be hosting the Global I·SEOUL·U Video & Photo Contest to advertise the value, charm, and identity of I·SEOUL·U, the original brand of Seoul city and to build and spread its image as a citizen-driven city brand. The Global I·SEOUL·U Video & Photo Contest will held with the two categories of video content and...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Government published 2018 Seoul White Book, where it reported on 100 major administrative projects that were pursued throughout 2018. In the 2018 Seoul White Book, according to the newly established four-year administration plan set out following the 7th popular elections, the major administrative projects have been divided into five categories. Those categories...   Read more

Seoul will be recruiting members for the 4th “I·SEOUL·U Friends” citizen-oriented publicity group from May 17-30. “I·SEOUL·U Friends” began operation in 2016 and selects members annually. The group is made and managed by citizens to construct a city brand image, and last year, a total of 15 teams and 149 members were selected for the...   Read more

The Seoul Metropolitan Archives, a storage space for Seoul’s memories and records, will officially open its doors on May 15, 2019. The Archives will not only manage and preserve municipal records that have been preserved for over thirty years and civil records that carry great public value, but also develop the Archives into a cultural...   Read more