About Seoul

Facts

Location: 126 degrees 59 minutes east longitude and 37 degrees 34 minutes north latitude

Climate: Seoul belongs to the temperate zone featured by four distinctive seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The yearly average temperature of Seoul is 12.9 degrees centigrade. Temperatures in Seoul tend to fluctuate a great deal, reaching as high as 36.1 degrees centigrade in the summer and dropping as low as -13.7 degrees centigrade in the winter

Population: Seoul has a population of 10,321,449 individuals and 3,458,511 households (recorded at the end of 2000). This accounts for about a quarter of the total national population. As for the proportion of male to female excluding foreigners; men (5,141,141) slightly outnumber women (5,123,119)

Emblem

Emblem

In 1996, the Seoul Metropolitan City created its new emblem in order to show the bright future of the capital city of the Republic of Korea, as it develops into a leading world city in the 21st century

The new emblem is colourful and displays the Korean letters: Seoul, mountains, sun and the Hangang of Seoul. It symbolises the look of a man in a happy mood