
Busan handles 13.2 million TEU shipping containers. Busan is also the largest port city in South Korea. Busan is located in “The Southern Economic Zone,” the biggest industrial area in South Korea, making the city an education, cultural, and economic center. It has a population of about 3.6 million people. Other Major Cities Of South Korea Busanīusan Metropolitan is the second largest town in South Korea. Cheongju International Airport also serves the city. A National railway connects the city to Seoul, and there also the KTX Osong Station in Cheongwon. There are also several high schools like Chochiwon Girl’s, an all girl school, and Bugang Engineering School. Education facilities in Sejong include the Korean Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management, the Global Consortium University and Korean University Sejong Campus. Ministries relocated include those of land, education, health, trade, environment, infrastructure and transport, and other government ministries and agencies such as the Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal. For example, Sejong Government Complex occupies about 213,000-square-metre and houses many head offices. The government has 36 ministries and about 16 agencies to Sejong. The city has four executive neighborhood, one town, and nine townships.

Central urban centers include Jochiwon-eap and Hansol-dong. Sejong Special Autonomous City in South Korea is the de facto administrative capital of the country. There is also Myeongdong, a shopping and entertainment zone in downtown Seoul, Namdaemun Market and Insadong cultural art market. It holds the largest retail marketing the country, the Dongdaemun Market. Manufacturing companies and service industries such as finance drive the economy of the city. It houses the National Academy of Sciences, and National Academy of Arts, the National Classical Music Institute, the National Museum of Korea and Sejong Center for Performing Acts. Seoul also serves as South Korea’s cultural center. For example, Kangman is an affluent area that provides office suites and high-rise apartments as it develops into Seoul’s Second Central Business District. As such, urban sprawl extends to other places outside the greenbelt to create new residential areas in satellite cities and the suburbs. The greenbelt surrounding Seoul parameter prohibits any further extensions of the city. Today, the city has a reinforced defensive advantage of an 11 miles long wall running along the small hills that naturally protect the city. This strategic location provided a natural defensive redoubt and also lay in the trade routes of grain, taxes, and other goods. The city was constructed along the Han River and almost at the center of the Peninsula some sixty kilometers from the yellow sea.


It covers an area of about 234 square miles. Seoul was also the capital of Korea as from 1394 before the formal division in 1948 when it became the official capital of South Korea. Seoul is South Korea's Capital City located along the Han River. More than 3 million residents live in Incheon Metropolitan City, making Incheon the third most populous city in South Korea. Other cities in the country include Busan, one of the busiest seaports by tonnage in the world. Seoul remained as the commercial, political, education, and financial center of South Korea. However, this move was never realized, and so Sejong became an administrative center with about 36 government ministries and 16 agencies. Sejong was initially constructed to replace Seoul as the capital of South Korea due to its central location. Seoul is the official capital City of South Korea and Sejong City is the De facto administrative capital of the country.
