In another contentious exchange with PBS NewsHour’s Yamiche Alcindor, President Donald Trump grossly misstated the population of Seoul, South Korea as having 38 million people, just moments after ...

Seoul saw its population drop to under 10 million for the first time in 32 years, according to the city administration, Wednesday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government said the number of residents in the ...

Seoul’s total population over the first quarter of 2024 dropped to 9.38 million, a 6.4 percent decline from the total population 20 years ago, 10.2 million, according to the Seoul Metropolitan ...

Editor's Note‘New Social Atlas’ is a series that approaches national statistics with the same curiosity as when looking at the Social Atlas during school days, which provided both information and ...

Songpa-gu (District Mayor Seo Gang-seok) maintained its position as the most populous district in Seoul with a registered resident population of 650,110 last year. This is the highest among the 69 ...

And beginning in September 2026, United Airlines will make traveling to Seoul easier for Americans by becoming the only U.S. carrier to offer nonstop flights—which are available to book now —from the ...

Seoul’s population fell below 10 million for the first time in 32 years, as the number of foreign residents in the city sharply dropped amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The city government said Wednesday ...

Starting this month, the Seoul Metropolitan Government is enforcing a local government ordinance that could impose fines of up to 1 million won on citizens caught feeding pigeons. Seoul is the only ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. EH Seo was born and raised in South Korea’s southern port city of Busan, but never doubted she would study and ...

South Korea tried to control the size of Seoul half a century ago. In Seoul’s first Basic Urban Plan, in 1966, its population was expected to grow from three to five million by 1985. But it hit that ...