On June 65438+ 10/9, 2005, Lee Myung-bak, Mayor of hancheng city, Korea, held a press conference and announced that the Chinese name of Hancheng was changed to "Seoul" and the word "Seoul" was no longer used. Lee Myung-bak explained that most countries call "Seoul" because it sounds similar to English. With the increasing communication between South Korea and China, the name "Seoul" has caused more and more confusion. ?

After more than a year of negotiation, Hancheng decided to replace Seoul with a new Chinese name "Seoul". ?

The word Seoul means the capital in Korean. Because at that time, people didn't want to keep the memory of Japanese rule or restore the memory of China's ancient submission. As there was no name to use, they changed their name directly to Seoul.

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Seoul has been the capital or an important city of the Korean Peninsula since the establishment of the Baekje capital, Weiling City, during the Three Kingdoms period in Korea. Since then, today's Seoul has been a battleground for Koguryo, Baekje and Silla. In the era of unifying Silla, it began to be named after Hanyang.

Hanyang was named Nanjing in the period of Koryo Dynasty, and it was named [12] in the 23rd year of Koryo Wenzong (i.e. 1068). When Gongcheng became king, he began to move the capital to Nanjing, but it was later interrupted. Since then, I mentioned moving the capital to Nanjing when I called the king and respected the king. 1392, Li Chenggui, the great ancestor of Korea, established the Korean dynasty in Jing Kai (now Kaesong), and moved the capital to Hanyang in 1394, changing Hanyang to "Seoul".

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-Seoul