This was a very old plan that I doubt will ever cement itself, speaking as a Korean. Barely anything is in Sejong City, not much has materialized since then. Daejeon nearby still has most of the services youd expect from a provincial city but not to the extent that Incheon does for Seoul.
Daejeon is full of old people. I’d say Gyeonggi, around Seongnam or even Pangyo has more potential. Almost an eighth of our population lives in Seoul Gyeonggi Incheon.
Since I've lived in both NYC and Washington DC in the US, maybe Seoul is like NYC and Sejong can become like Washington DC. NYC still remains the culture, business capital but DC is the political capital and has a lot of government jobs.
Awesome. It makes sense not to have all your eggs in one basket, especially when the city is under constant threat of being obliterated. With Sejong in the centre of the country, it will successfully pull it off.
The Korean Constitutional Court struck down the law that attempted to relocate the capital to Sejong city, citing an “unwritten customary constitution” that makes Seoul the capital. Everyone knew then that the law was dead because a constitutional amendment would require two-thirds of National Assembly members to sign off on it. So no, South Korea is not moving its capital
More importantly, the administrative functions of the metropolitan area and the resolution and sharing of overcrowding are the reasons. Of course, many people abroad may approach it from such a narrow perspective
honestly, SK has better justification and more resources to move the capital. IMO if Egypt really wants to move its capital it should first fill the Qattara depression and finish the Toshka damn/canal project FIRST,then they'd have a better tax base and they would have bought themselves 20 years to fix it
you can not compare sejong with nay pyi daw, because na pyi dauw build to be far from their people, the dictator there want to build city without their people, so in this case, they success, because people won't go to naypiydaw
Korean word SEOUL(서울) means CAPITAL. SEOUL will remain as Capital city of Korean peninsula & Korean people. But SEJONG is made for concentrated governmental administration like Canberra or Ottawa. But Korean president will stay in SEOUL. So SEJONG is different from Canberra or Ottawa. If Korean government were Two government system, president can stay in SEOUL, but Prime minister & his cabinet will stay in SEJONG 😊
@@AviaZou7A North Korea’s official name is Joseon. Seoul was capital of Joseon dynasty for 500 years. But now North Korea’s capital is Pyongyang, Pyongyang means FLAT GROUND. They are calling it Capital of Revolution 😂
@@Seoul_Korea_ I find Seoul very beautiful, I want to visit. I have a question though, couldn't Busan be the new admisnistrative capital? It's way smaller than Seoul and is far away from North Korea. You wouldn't need to waste taxpayer money that way. Also do you think that when korea unites the capital will be Soeul or other city in North Korea. Do you guys debate those stuff there?
@@Obsidiana-eq8icIf the unity happen, Seoul definitely will be capital of Korea. The north korean most building are not good condition. Those are worthless and suck. And the busan can't be a capital. Busan is not a planned city, and if the replacing capital is selected to Busan, there will be a very hot legal problem about real estate.
Sejong city is over achieving its goal by poplulation and it never intend to be megapolis like seoul, tokyo, nyc. Its role model is like Washington D.C.
I find the lack of mass transit from the outset a fatal flaw for Sejong city. You can’t replicate the culture of Seoul. But you can built fast transit, basically for people who wants to experience the benefit of Seoul without the burden on living in the city.
can you explain about Nusantara ? It is the new relocated capital of Indonesia.. I have a feeling it is in the same condition like Sejong, but might be not...
as a korean and who has a mother in the government, I can confirm this is partially wrong. Sejong isn't the new capital, as attempts to make a new capital such as Busan in Gyongsang county had failed. This is merely a city for government activities. That is why my mother takes fricking 3 hours to come home after work.
Lack of transportation infrastructure is key. Before business can develop and expand, it will need people access. Don't do what the US did and build another suburbia, if they do it will never have a chance to come close to competing with Seoul
The US urban planning is the worst in the world. It can learn from the Far East. Seoul came with no metro to one of the largest underground systems in the world. Sejong will become another Seoul in no time.
@@harkeb With the "Far East" i think you meant Japan alone. Taiwan, South Korea, and China are still lagging behind if it had to be compared with the likes of European cities in terms of sustainability in public transport
As a Korean, I don't know much, but I feel like this is a dumb idea, Seoul is such a big city, and yeah, the government can move, but the people will not so yeah.
Most people don't necessarily need to move. It's beneficial in countries like the US which have a sort "financial" capital like New York that serves as an economic hub, while the much less populous Washington DC can serve as a political hub. If you want to grow in the corporate world, NYC is great. If you want to excel in politics, go work in DC. If you want to do both at the same time, you're probably corrupt lol.
Moving your government away from the border of a hostile North Korea is a good idea, but perhaps expecting a large number of people moving to a new city that’s still under construction in some places from a city with an established infrastructure and economy isn’t something that’s going to happen quickly, especially when the new city is inland instead of near the coast.
The coming years will centralize the country by its old military lines before the Nakdong River near Busan. Wonju was the lone military outpost that was centrally located to hold the country from full invasion rapidly. When Seoul gets threatened with military confrontation by the North and China, all government branches will rapidly relocate to the central mountainous region known as Wonju, once the capital city of Gangwon province during the Tang , then Manchu Sui and Ching dynasties. During the Ming Era, Chosun’s Capital remained in Seoul until 1945. Back in the 12-14th centuries, under the Kogryeo Dynasty, the Capital was Kaesong. After the fall of this dynasty separate cities became newer seats of power until unified under Chosun by the late 14th century. That is why it is unwritten but whispered amongst the leaders.
Speak Ehgrish, you’ve been played by China, Japan, Europe’s France, Imperial then Soviet Union Russia, Japan, America, the alliance, and now Japan who like China just wants to keep it a whore house for its drafted soldiers. Korea, unlike Italy or Germany is housed like a plebiscite colony for bigger powers, just as the Irish, the Finns, the Siberian Mongolians, the Manchus of northern China in 1920-45. The Japanese still lay claims over Dokdo and hoping to establish relations with North Korea to split the Republic of Korea over its Tripartite alliance involving Japan. India for a while was hesitant to join Aukus, but in light of China’s claims on Lak territories, they’ve woken up as well, regardless of their fresh water supplies in the region. South Korea like North Korea will always remain divided because of its own inability to see ir even understand why outside powers keep the country ignorant and always weak. They’ve even gone so far as to make South Korea a lapdog to OECD statistics and warnings about allowing open uncontrolled immigration into the nation! You young kids will become as dum witted as the Japanese into thinking foreign culture will help secure Japanese future! Bullsheit! Look at the problems the Scandinavians and Western Europeans are in, Putin purposely started sending poor migrants from Africa and the Middle East to overload their human services much as the Democrats under Biden have done for election votes this primary! Get with the program and think and see outride the box, you might understand the worlds changing before your eyes and not for the better.
Seoul has over 2000 years of history. It was called "Ari(or Wirye)" when it was first capital of ancient kingdom, Baekje. Before Baekje changed its capital to Gomanaru, Ari was economic center of East Asia. Seoul remained one of the biggest cities in Asia for 1000yrs even it wasn't capital city. After that, Joseon Kingdom chose Seoul as capital and this is the Seoul we see now. I think it will be hard to change its capital for S.Korea because Seoul has such long heritage and nobody can easily change it in a few decades
It seems many countries are moving their capital city nowadays. Washington DC should be moved to Kansas City. London to Manchester. Tokyo to Osaka. Manila to Mindanao. That will be fun.
DC won't be moving, since it already caused enough controversy when it was formed. Not to mention that Kansas city would be required to become an exclusive district as DC is now, and neither state that surrounds Kansas City would agree with such a change, since it provides a lot of state tax revenue. Even the states that ceded the land required to construct DC made a lot of noise when it happened, enough noise that Was made, that they scaled it back from the original plans. I suspect that it's the same for many other Capitols in other 1st world countries. Vermont's state Capitol is subject to regular cycles of people wondering if it should be moved, yet again... Something that hasn't gone anywhere since the current statehouse was built, and that is the third location for the state Capitol already... So with that in mind, and since DC is in its own Second or third location... Unless something drastic changes... Like the implosion of NIMBYs and the Republicans as a whole...💁🏼♂️
No, no it doesn’t. They are following the rules for capitalization of words in a title. “Its” is capitalized in this instance. So no, there isn’t a “glaring grammatical error.” Surprised at how many people liked this without understanding how capitalization works in a title.
yes, go to china, korea and thailand. you will love it. not like what we have been taught and told by our media. they are safe, modern and peaceful... :) i am an american and i admit...
As the country's population is concentrated in the metropolitan area, housing prices are rising, leading to young people giving up marriage and childbirth.
Given the incentives that are being offered to people (mostly families) who move there like state funded daycare inside apartment complexes, i think getting people to start families there is probably a major objective. Get people out of the city to a place that has plenty of space, is more affordable, and easier for people to settle down in.
@@Jimin_XVIIOnly because the car manufacturers also had a subsidiary for making trains. If not South Korea would be extremely car centric like the US with the Big 3 buying out all public transit companies and replacing them by buses
@@martinogold city is tiny and beside, most ppl walk to work there or drive. No need to extensive train network as this city wasn't meant to grow. It's like Canberra in Australia. There's buses in operational. City is planning to build train network with other cities. KTX fast train stops at Sejong. lmao. Have you visited Sejong city? it's tiny city built for government buildings.
To be fair every South Korean cities is dystopic with the rows of apartment buildings lining up alongside major roads. Used to see them a lot on the car heading to Incheon Airport and it looks super creepy 💀
Agreed . They could've done much better , its very uncommon for this type of megaproject to fail , Brasilia, Canberra, and Islamabad were all planed capitals too. Not sure how south Korea failed with this :/
More importantly, the administrative functions of the metropolitan area and the resolution and sharing of overcrowding are the reasons. Of course, many people abroad may approach it from such a narrow perspective
@aspiresamori9696 every extra bit of distance costs. Missiles, artillery whatever. Most particularly, for 70yrs North Korea has been accumulating huge numbers of artillery pieces aimed at Seoul. Note NK as a major supplier of artillery shells to Russia. Those shells will not reach the new city from NK.
You're talking to a global audience, so kindly respect global conventions: Measures are metric, not miles & co. You are not even an american by the sound of it, why does this have to be explained?
I believe ROK success is that South Korean democracy, like Taiwans, developed over several decades, transparency justice and suffrage added to strong industrialising and success. I’m an admirer from 🦘
This was a very old plan that I doubt will ever cement itself, speaking as a Korean. Barely anything is in Sejong City, not much has materialized since then. Daejeon nearby still has most of the services youd expect from a provincial city but not to the extent that Incheon does for Seoul.
Daejeon is full of old people. I’d say Gyeonggi, around Seongnam or even Pangyo has more potential. Almost an eighth of our population lives in Seoul Gyeonggi Incheon.
Since I've lived in both NYC and Washington DC in the US, maybe Seoul is like NYC and Sejong can become like Washington DC. NYC still remains the culture, business capital but DC is the political capital and has a lot of government jobs.
Canberra in Australia and a few other countries.
also like brazilia and rio
like kuala lumpur is nyc & putrajaya is like washington. pls dont copy other countries ideas. make your own ideas korean
Like Toronto/Ottawa
Awesome. It makes sense not to have all your eggs in one basket, especially when the city is under constant threat of being obliterated. With Sejong in the centre of the country, it will successfully pull it off.
The Korean Constitutional Court struck down the law that attempted to relocate the capital to Sejong city, citing an “unwritten customary constitution” that makes Seoul the capital. Everyone knew then that the law was dead because a constitutional amendment would require two-thirds of National Assembly members to sign off on it. So no, South Korea is not moving its capital
It's a strategic move as it puts the capital further away from the threat of North Korea.
More importantly, the administrative functions of the metropolitan area and the resolution and sharing of overcrowding are the reasons.
Of course, many people abroad may approach it from such a narrow perspective
I think so too, their capital is just way too close to the DMZ.
@@krtmlry2719 5~60km far from dmz
honestly, SK has better justification and more resources to move the capital. IMO if Egypt really wants to move its capital it should first fill the Qattara depression and finish the Toshka damn/canal project FIRST,then they'd have a better tax base and they would have bought themselves 20 years to fix it
you can not compare sejong with nay pyi daw, because na pyi dauw build to be far from their people, the dictator there want to build city without their people, so in this case, they success, because people won't go to naypiydaw
Korean word SEOUL(서울) means CAPITAL. SEOUL will remain as Capital city of Korean peninsula & Korean people. But SEJONG is made for concentrated governmental administration like Canberra or Ottawa. But Korean president will stay in SEOUL. So SEJONG is different from Canberra or Ottawa. If Korean government were Two government system, president can stay in SEOUL, but Prime minister & his cabinet will stay in SEJONG 😊
What does Pyongyang mean?
@@AviaZou7A North Korea’s official name is Joseon. Seoul was capital of Joseon dynasty for 500 years. But now North Korea’s capital is Pyongyang, Pyongyang means FLAT GROUND. They are calling it Capital of Revolution 😂
@@Seoul_Korea_ I find Seoul very beautiful, I want to visit. I have a question though, couldn't Busan be the new admisnistrative capital? It's way smaller than Seoul and is far away from North Korea. You wouldn't need to waste taxpayer money that way. Also do you think that when korea unites the capital will be Soeul or other city in North Korea. Do you guys debate those stuff there?
@@Obsidiana-eq8icIf the unity happen, Seoul definitely will be capital of Korea. The north korean most building are not good condition. Those are worthless and suck. And the busan can't be a capital. Busan is not a planned city, and if the replacing capital is selected to Busan, there will be a very hot legal problem about real estate.
Sejong city is over achieving its goal by poplulation and it never intend to be megapolis like seoul, tokyo, nyc. Its role model is like Washington D.C.
I find the lack of mass transit from the outset a fatal flaw for Sejong city.
You can’t replicate the culture of Seoul. But you can built fast transit, basically for people who wants to experience the benefit of Seoul without the burden on living in the city.
Great video.Very interesting and nice about geo-economic and politics of south korea as an emerging power house of Asia.
Thank you!
Korea has been the TOP 10 economy since the 2000s, so it is not an emerging power house...
Emerging means continue increasing growth.@@StarSystem-p3i
Bruh, korea now top 14, overproud detected
@@iy1840 I checked and found that it's 13th! but the gap between 11th and 14th places is not big.
Very interesting!
can you explain about Nusantara ? It is the new relocated capital of Indonesia.. I have a feeling it is in the same condition like Sejong, but might be not...
Indonesia is also building a new capital city.
5:31 Anyone else see the sign? What's their idea of a "Happy" Massage?🤔
great video!
Thank you!
Dude where’s your views,,, you deserve so much more viewers
Thank you so much for the appreciation, bro!
Definitely keep at it
Remember me when you’re famous lmao
Can I ask how you make your videos?
With premiere Pro and After Effects.
as a korean and who has a mother in the government, I can confirm this is partially wrong. Sejong isn't the new capital, as attempts to make a new capital such as Busan in Gyongsang county had failed. This is merely a city for government activities. That is why my mother takes fricking 3 hours to come home after work.
Ah? My country also about to change its capital city. What happen with these countries? Last time i heard egypt also prepare for the same plan.
Moving the capital further away from North Korea is definitely beneficial! Lbvs
Tbf, by Australian standards, it already has more of a population than most Australian cities lol
Lack of transportation infrastructure is key. Before business can develop and expand, it will need people access. Don't do what the US did and build another suburbia, if they do it will never have a chance to come close to competing with Seoul
The US urban planning is the worst in the world. It can learn from the Far East. Seoul came with no metro to one of the largest underground systems in the world. Sejong will become another Seoul in no time.
@@harkeb With the "Far East" i think you meant Japan alone. Taiwan, South Korea, and China are still lagging behind if it had to be compared with the likes of European cities in terms of sustainability in public transport
It‘s called Sejong, not Sayjong.
Nope
No, Sejong is not Capital City
As a Korean, I don't know much, but I feel like this is a dumb idea, Seoul is such a big city, and yeah, the government can move, but the people will not so yeah.
Most people don't necessarily need to move. It's beneficial in countries like the US which have a sort "financial" capital like New York that serves as an economic hub, while the much less populous Washington DC can serve as a political hub. If you want to grow in the corporate world, NYC is great. If you want to excel in politics, go work in DC. If you want to do both at the same time, you're probably corrupt lol.
Yeah
changing ❌
used to try changing ✅
Moving your government away from the border of a hostile North Korea is a good idea, but perhaps expecting a large number of people moving to a new city that’s still under construction in some places from a city with an established infrastructure and economy isn’t something that’s going to happen quickly, especially when the new city is inland instead of near the coast.
You should be much more popular than this. Great, high quality content! I love it.
Glad you enjoy it!
Why would they want decentralisation when soueoul is thriving?
housing crisis, demography decline
Your video is decent but.......they are actually changing the Capital to Wonju from Seoul. It will happen in 2026. Sejong-daero will not work.
Thank you so much .. But, can't find any info regarding the change of capital on Wonju
The coming years will centralize the country by its old military lines before the Nakdong River near Busan. Wonju was the lone military outpost that was centrally located to hold the country from full invasion rapidly. When Seoul gets threatened with military confrontation by the North and China, all government branches will rapidly relocate to the central mountainous region known as Wonju, once the capital city of Gangwon province during the Tang , then Manchu Sui and Ching dynasties. During the Ming Era, Chosun’s Capital remained in Seoul until 1945. Back in the 12-14th centuries, under the Kogryeo Dynasty, the Capital was Kaesong. After the fall of this dynasty separate cities became newer seats of power until unified under Chosun by the late 14th century. That is why it is unwritten but whispered amongst the leaders.
붕시닌가?
Speak Ehgrish, you’ve been played by China, Japan, Europe’s France, Imperial then Soviet Union Russia, Japan, America, the alliance, and now Japan who like China just wants to keep it a whore house for its drafted soldiers. Korea, unlike Italy or Germany is housed like a plebiscite colony for bigger powers, just as the Irish, the Finns, the Siberian Mongolians, the Manchus of northern China in 1920-45. The Japanese still lay claims over Dokdo and hoping to establish relations with North Korea to split the Republic of Korea over its Tripartite alliance involving Japan. India for a while was hesitant to join Aukus, but in light of China’s claims on Lak territories, they’ve woken up as well, regardless of their fresh water supplies in the region.
South Korea like North Korea will always remain divided because of its own inability to see ir even understand why outside powers keep the country ignorant and always weak. They’ve even gone so far as to make South Korea a lapdog to OECD statistics and warnings about allowing open uncontrolled immigration into the nation! You young kids will become as dum witted as the Japanese into thinking foreign culture will help secure Japanese future! Bullsheit! Look at the problems the Scandinavians and Western Europeans are in, Putin purposely started sending poor migrants from Africa and the Middle East to overload their human services much as the Democrats under Biden have done for election votes this primary! Get with the program and think and see outride the box, you might understand the worlds changing before your eyes and not for the better.
Seoul has over 2000 years of history. It was called "Ari(or Wirye)" when it was first capital of ancient kingdom, Baekje. Before Baekje changed its capital to Gomanaru, Ari was economic center of East Asia. Seoul remained one of the biggest cities in Asia for 1000yrs even it wasn't capital city. After that, Joseon Kingdom chose Seoul as capital and this is the Seoul we see now. I think it will be hard to change its capital for S.Korea because Seoul has such long heritage and nobody can easily change it in a few decades
It seems many countries are moving their capital city nowadays. Washington DC should be moved to Kansas City. London to Manchester. Tokyo to Osaka. Manila to Mindanao. That will be fun.
DC won't be moving, since it already caused enough controversy when it was formed.
Not to mention that Kansas city would be required to become an exclusive district as DC is now, and neither state that surrounds Kansas City would agree with such a change, since it provides a lot of state tax revenue.
Even the states that ceded the land required to construct DC made a lot of noise when it happened, enough noise that Was made, that they scaled it back from the original plans.
I suspect that it's the same for many other Capitols in other 1st world countries.
Vermont's state Capitol is subject to regular cycles of people wondering if it should be moved, yet again... Something that hasn't gone anywhere since the current statehouse was built, and that is the third location for the state Capitol already... So with that in mind, and since DC is in its own Second or third location... Unless something drastic changes... Like the implosion of NIMBYs and the Republicans as a whole...💁🏼♂️
Bro this is not happening
Your title has a glaring grammatical error. Should be “its”
So?
No, no it doesn’t. They are following the rules for capitalization of words in a title. “Its” is capitalized in this instance. So no, there isn’t a “glaring grammatical error.”
Surprised at how many people liked this without understanding how capitalization works in a title.
that’s not an error
stop acting like you haven't done a grammatical error in your life lol
so what
i don't understand why they don't try to expand already existing cities on the coast why always creating new cities out of nowhere?
housing crisis
I am especially interested in Asia, especially Korea! Please produce more videos about Korea!
yes, go to china, korea and thailand. you will love it. not like what we have been taught and told by our media. they are safe, modern and peaceful... :) i am an american and i admit...
Which Korea?
@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 If you just use "Korea" instead of "South Korea," most people know that it means "South Korea."😀
@@chrthewrestler2301 Thailand is modern?? What???!!
go to bangkok. not other smaller towns. :) their hotels, tourist spots and malls and everything. @@StarSystem-p3i
Keep Korea Japan China Vietnam Philippines Taiwan America Mexico and other countries and nations safe 🙏❤
Can you do geography of my country ( Turkiye ) ❤.
i guess it is a good thing to change.
wow beautiful - little by little it will prosper and more people will be attracted and live there
No capital change. Seoul is the capital forever. Sejong is just the countryside.
As the country's population is concentrated in the metropolitan area, housing prices are rising, leading to young people giving up marriage and childbirth.
Given the incentives that are being offered to people (mostly families) who move there like state funded daycare inside apartment complexes, i think getting people to start families there is probably a major objective. Get people out of the city to a place that has plenty of space, is more affordable, and easier for people to settle down in.
@@restitvtororbis5330people don’t want to go there they just sit in Seoul and complain
Better!
Sejong is not that successful. It doesn’t have heritage and not at all. And also It’s not capital city.
Showing Roh Tae Woo in 1987 as face of democracy was soooo off. Roh was another brutal military dictator.
Sejong looks awfully car centric...
Im south korean and most cities in korea are car centric. Its not that bad because of the public transportation services.
@@Jimin_XVIIOnly because the car manufacturers also had a subsidiary for making trains. If not South Korea would be extremely car centric like the US with the Big 3 buying out all public transit companies and replacing them by buses
Yes built for EV
There is no excuse for poor public transport when starting from scratch. What a missed opportunity.
@@martinogold city is tiny and beside, most ppl walk to work there or drive. No need to extensive train network as this city wasn't meant to grow. It's like Canberra in Australia. There's buses in operational. City is planning to build train network with other cities. KTX fast train stops at Sejong. lmao. Have you visited Sejong city? it's tiny city built for government buildings.
Complete failure by not employing new urbanism. It already looks distopic
To be fair every South Korean cities is dystopic with the rows of apartment buildings lining up alongside major roads. Used to see them a lot on the car heading to Incheon Airport and it looks super creepy 💀
Agreed . They could've done much better , its very uncommon for this type of megaproject to fail , Brasilia, Canberra, and Islamabad were all planed capitals too. Not sure how south Korea failed with this :/
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so long story short theyre trying to make sejong the capital so people go away from seoul
Love Sejong Da great
He Was HIM!
Reason : Proximity to North Korea
One of the reasons!
More importantly, the administrative functions of the metropolitan area and the resolution and sharing of overcrowding are the reasons.
Of course, many people abroad may approach it from such a narrow perspective
@@hazelnut3794 life and death is a narrow perspective?
@@gvibration1Modern day wars, that little distant does not make much differences.
@aspiresamori9696 every extra bit of distance costs. Missiles, artillery whatever.
Most particularly, for 70yrs North Korea has been accumulating huge numbers of artillery pieces aimed at Seoul. Note NK as a major supplier of artillery shells to Russia. Those shells will not reach the new city from NK.
Seoul is too close to North Korea
Seoul is still the capital of south Korea it is not sejong
copy putrajaya
You're talking to a global audience, so kindly respect global conventions: Measures are metric, not miles & co. You are not even an american by the sound of it, why does this have to be explained?
Would keep in mind next time.. Thank you
I believe ROK success is that South Korean democracy, like Taiwans, developed over several decades, transparency justice and suffrage added to strong industrialising and success. I’m an admirer from 🦘