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City Member

Seoul,
(South Korea)

Seoul South Korea

GENERAL PRESENTATION

Seoul, an economic metropolis in Asia

Seoul, capital of South Korea (Republic of Korea), is located between China and Japan, the premier business markets in Asia. The Han River flows from East to West across the city with NamSan Mountain towering over it. It is the largest city and the chief commercial, manufacturing, administrative, and cultural centre of South Korea. Seoul has been in continuous development and growth since 1960 when the economic development plan was implemented.

Today, Seoul covers only 0.6% of South Korea but it generates 50% of the financial market and 21% of Korea’s GDP. More than 43% of new venture high technology businesses come from foreign investments. It is a competitive and influential power in the financial and distribution industry fields. Acting as a bridge to North East Asia, Seoul is also easy to access with its airports, high speed trains, highway and harbour facilities.

Design Seoul

Seoul’s slogan « Fresh and attractive international city, Seoul » has been the foundation of a new policy for both industrial and public design, in which the city has invested to develop the quality of life. Recently, a campaign called Soft Seoul Project has been put into action; the Soft Seoul project consists of several aspects: an overall plan, actual strategy, public work, etc

 

Seoul, City of Light

In Seoul, there is the Han River which flows through the city from East to West and there is NamSan Mountain in the middle of the city. Seoul has hosted the Asian Games, the Olympics, the ASEM Assembly, the World cup, and the Metro police meeting. For these big international events, Seoul has started to install lighting on SungNyemun (the No.1 national treasure), Olympic Bridge, ChungDam Bridge, the city landscape.

From 1998 to 2002, Seoul planned working projects to improve the image of the nocturnal landscape. They improved the lighting of cultural assets, public facilities, landmark buildings, and local public & private buildings.

In 2007, setting up beautiful night-time lighting related to a project involving the Han River Renaissance which is the city’s main business, Seoul decided to make the Han River an international tourist attraction. The shade, tone of colour and brightness of the lighting of the bridges complimented each other in harmony. In addition, they are planning to set up an indirect aquatic lighting of the new bridges. Furthermore, Seoul endeavours to improve the lighting of the landscape and private buildings to create attractive lighting in the local 11 Han River civil parks.

 

Seoul in LUCI

In 2016, the City of Seoul hosted LUCI Annual General Meeting. Over 700 city representatives and lighting professionals from around the world came together for this event – a milestone for the LUCI network.

In 2017, Seoul became the host of the LUCI Regional Office for Asia (LROA). The first event hosted by LROA was an Urban Lighting Workshop for Asian Cities, in June 2017. It gathered over 50 participants from 15 cities in Asia and beyond to discuss sustainable urban lighting.

 

MORE INFORMATION: http://english.seoul.go.kr/

 

 

 

 

 

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