Wikipedia:Sejong City
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| Sejong City 세종시 · 世宗市 |
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| — Special Autonomous City — | |
| Sejong Special Autonomous City | |
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| - Hangul | 세종 특별자치시 |
| - Hanja | 世宗特別自治市 |
| - Revised Romanization | Sejong Teukbyeol-jachisi |
| - McCune-Reischauer | Sechong Tŭkpyŏl-chach’isi |
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| Country |  South Korea |
| Region | Hoseo |
| Districts | TBD |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | TBD |
| Population (TBD) | |
| - Total | TBD |
| - Dialect | Chungcheong |
| Flower | TBD |
| Tree | TBD |
| Bird | TBD |
| Website | happycity.go.kr (English) |
In early 2007, the Government of Republic of Korea decided to create a special administrative district housing nine ministries and four national agencies currently located in Seoul out of part of the present Chungcheongnam-do province, near Daejeon. The new district will be named Sejong Special Autonomous City. The name is a tribute to Sejong the Great, who commissioned Korean scholars to create the Hangul alphabet that is used today instead of traditional Chinese characters.[1] The plan envisages a city with a population of around 500,000 [2]
In September 2009 Prime Minster Chung Un-chan opined that the plan to build Sejong City as a national administrative center was "not an efficient policy when viewed from the eyes of an economist." This led to more than a thousand senior scholars and politicians including three former prime ministers to call for a revision of the plan.[3] Geum Chang-ho, a senior research fellow of the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration, noted that the original plan had drawn criticism that the city would have many of the ten thousand government employees separated from their families, which would remain in the Seoul area to take advantage of such amenities as perceived superior educational opportunities. As a result of the separations, Sejong City would experience a toadstool effect, with bars, nightclubs etc. springing up virtually overnight. Therefore, the government has "been studying ways to make Sejong City self-sufficient..." [2].
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References
- ^ BBC NEWS: S Korea chooses new capital site
- ^ a b Kang Hyun-kyung, ""Sejong City Project Will Have Far-Reaching Ramifications"," The Korea Times, Sept. 26-27, 2009, p. 2.
- ^ The Korea Herald | A political hot potato: Sejong City
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