ソウル

そうる
noun (proper)
Seoul
geographyproper-nounplace-name
1. Seoul
The capital of South Korea, a major destination for Japanese tourism and a center of Korean pop culture.
ソウルへ旅行(りょこう)に行(い)く。
I'm going on a trip to Seoul.
ソウルは韓国(かんこく)の首都(しゅと)だ。
Seoul is the capital of South Korea.
彼女(かのじょ)はソウルで買(か)い物(もの)と食(た)べ歩(ある)きを楽(たの)しんだ。
She enjoyed shopping and eating her way around Seoul.

ソウル is the standard transliteration of the Korean city name. Unlike 北京(ぺきん) or 上海(しゃんはい), it has no established kanji reading in Japanese and is always written in katakana.

Common collocations

  • ソウルオリンピック: the Seoul Olympics
  • ソウル便(びん): a flight to/from Seoul

Cultural note: ソウル is closely associated in Japan with the Korean Wave (韓流(かんりゅう)) — K-pop, Korean dramas, and Korean cuisine — and is a popular weekend-trip destination from western Japan thanks to short flight times.

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