Seoul

American  

[sohl, sool, sey-ool, syœ-ool] / soʊl, sul, ˈseɪ ʊl, ˈsyœ ʊl /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part.

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Seoul British  

/ səʊl /

noun

1. the capital of South Korea, in the west on the Han River: capital of Korea from 1392 to 1910, then seat of the Japanese administration until 1945; became capital of South Korea in 1948; cultural and educational centre. Pop: 9 592 000 (2005 est)

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Seoul Cultural  

1. Capital of South Korea and the largest city in the country, located in northwestern South Korea; Political, commercial, industrial, transportation, and cultural center of South Korea.

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The city was heavily damaged during the Korean War.

Seoul became the capital in 1948, with the establishment of North Korea and South Korea.

Home of the 1988 summer Olympic Games.

Example Sentences

Olive Young is as if “Sephora and Duane Reade had a really cool baby,” said Emily Montague, an aesthetician in Los Angeles who’s visited its locations in Seoul.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

She counts herself among the masses making pilgrimages to Seoul for products and treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

With the latest launch, Pyongyang is indicating that it intends to deploy such a weapon system in the event of war, said analyst Hong Min of the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The Seoul Central District Court granted an arrest warrant for the YouTuber on Tuesday, citing concerns that he might destroy evidence or flee.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

As word spread in Seoul of his birth in and escape from a no-exit labor camp, he began to meet many of the South’s leading human rights activists and heads of defector organizations.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden