First, the Chinese name "Seoul" has stopped being used in Korea. At present, most countries in the world call cities according to their similar pronunciations to their English signs. Only China's cultural circle continues to use the original Chinese name "Seoul", which is inconsistent with its current real name.
Second, the current era is an era of international standardization, and the name of Seoul should also be changed according to international standards.
Third, with the increasing exchanges between South Korea and China, the original name of Seoul has caused "great confusion" in its use.
Li Mingbo said that "Seoul" means "the first city". "Seoul" is closest to its actual pronunciation, and commonly used Chinese characters are used as foreign place names. I believe that China people will be familiar with this new name easily.
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The first evil history:
The earliest name of Seoul is Seoul, which is the capital of Koguryo and one of the three capitals.
1392, Li Chenggui, the great ancestor of Korea, established the Korean dynasty in Jing Kai (now Kaesong) and moved the capital to Hanyang, now Seoul, in 1394. Since then, Hanyang has been the capital of North Korea. In the Japanese occupation era, Hanyang was reduced to Seoul County until it was merged into Gyeonggi Province with Kaicheng County.
1945 After the restoration, it was renamed from Beijing. After the Korean War broke out, the former Seoul (now Seoul) changed hands four times between the Korean People's Army, Chinese people's Volunteer Army and the United Nations Army. After the recovery of South Korea, the independent government began to use the Korean special word ""(meaning "capital") in 1948. Because there was no Chinese name at that time, China and others always used the Chinese name Seoul.
1949 was promoted to a special city. Seoul also continued to expand to the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi Province until 1973. Seoul hosted the Olympic Games in 1988, the World Cup with Tokyo in 2002 and the opening ceremony of the World Cup in 2002. June 65438+1October 65438+September 2005, then Mayor Lee Myung-bak officially announced that the Chinese translation of ""was changed to Seoul, and informed the China Municipal Government.
People's Daily Online-The capital of South Korea was renamed Seoul.
Baidu encyclopedia-Seoul