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Hannam-dong
Hannam-dong is a '' dong'', neighbourhood of Yongsan-gu in Seoul, South Korea. One of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, it has been portrayed continuously in South Korea's popular culture as a wealthy and luxurious spot, and for this it has been the subject of domestic films, television series, and Korean pop music. Initially not included within the Yongsan ward, during the Japanese colonial period it was a small hamlet called Han River Village (한강리/) within the Hanji township (한지면/), Goyang County (고양군/) and lying close to the Han River. Being right across the river from the Gangnam area of Seoul and its proximity to locations in northern Seoul makes the neighborhood centrally located in Seoul. Many celebrities and executives live in three well known residential areas in the neighborhood: UN Village, The Hill, and Nine One Hannam. Beginning in the 2010s, the area has grown into a trendy hotspot both day and night with boutique cafes, restaurant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yongsan-gu
Yongsan District (, ) is one of the 25 List of districts of Seoul, districts of Seoul, South Korea. Yongsan has a population of 231,685 (2020) and has a geographic area of , and is divided into 19 ''Dong (administrative division), dong'' (administrative neighborhoods). Yongsan is located in central Seoul on the northern bank of the Han River (Korea), Han River, bordering the city districts of Jung District, Seoul, Jung to the north, Mapo District, Mapo to the west, Yeongdeungpo District, Yeongdeungpo and Dongjak District, Dongjak to the southwest, Seocho District, Seocho and Gangnam District to the southeast, and Seongdong District, Seongdong to the east. Description Yongsan District is a district in central Seoul, South Korea. It sits to the north of the Han River (Korea), Han River and is part of the ''Outer old Seoul, Seongjeosimni'' (Outer old Seoul) area immediately south of Seoul's City centre, historic center in Jung district on the southern side of Namsan (Seoul), Namsan. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German School Seoul International
The German School Seoul International (german: Deutsche Schule Seoul International, DSSI; ko, 서울독일학교/) is a German international school in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It was founded in 1976. It serves German expatriate families, other foreigners and Koreans living in the South Korean capital and its surroundings. The school is approved by the Federal Republic of Germany as a private foreign school. It is one of 140 German international schools certified as an "excellent German international school" by the Federal Office of Administration History In August 1976 the Verein Deutsche Schule Seoul was founded as a registered association by German speaking parents and members of the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit. The school was established on August 1 of that year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannam Station
Hannam Station is a station on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line. It is located on the northwestern end of the Hannam Bridge, overlooking the Han River. It was also called Dankook University Station until 2007, when Dankook University moved the majority of its campus to the suburban city of Yongin. The neighborhood of Hannam-dong is home to various nations' embassies in Korea, and many can be accessed from this station, with the closest being the embassy of Slovakia. Station layout External links Station informationfrom Korail The Korea Railroad Corporation (Korean: 한국철도공사, Hanja: ), branded as KORAIL (코레일, officially changed to in November 2019), is the national railway operator in South Korea. Currently, KORAIL is a public corporation, managed ... {{Gyeongwon Line Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations Metro stations in Yongsan District Railway stations opened in 1980 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seorae Village
Seorae Village, sometimes nicknamed "Montmartre", due to its hilltop location, or sometimes "French Village", is a small, affluent French enclave in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is home to about 560 French people, roughly 40% of the French community in South Korea. Most of them are employees of French corporations doing business in the country. The majority (370) of the French population are children. The village began to form there in 1985, with the movement of Lycée Français de Séoul to the area. The school, the city's only French international school, had formerly been located just north of the Han River in Hannam-dong, a large international neighborhood. French people with children followed, as did bakeries and wine shops. The village is the site of a 20,000 m2 park, "Montmartre Park", which is often the site of public events for foreigners. It is near Express Bus Terminal Station on Seoul Subway Line 3. The area has a large concentration of Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeum, Samsung Museum Of Art
The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is a museum in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, run by the Samsung Foundation of Culture. It consists of two parts that house traditional Korean art and contemporary art. Museum 1 is designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta and Museum 2 is by French architect Jean Nouvel with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas designed the Samsung Child Education & Culture Center. Collection Museum 1, designed by Mario Botta, houses a collection of traditional Korean art, of which 36 pieces are designated national treasures. Included in the collection are landscapes and folk paintings, traditional ceramics and porcelain, such as Celadon and Buncheong, a bluish-green traditional Korean stoneware. As well as 14th century daggers, crowns, earrings and ornaments; and Buddhist art, sculptures, paintings and manuscripts. Two large volumes, a reverse cone and a simple hexahedral shape, form Museum 1. Mario Botta utilized terra cotta bricks on the building's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French School Of Seoul
The French School of Seoul (french: Lycée français de Séoul, LFS, ko, 서울프랑스학교) is a French international school in Seorae Village, a community in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea.Korea's Little France, Seorae Village Archive . Arirang (). June 23, 2009. Retrieved on May 22, 2014. It includes kindergarten through secondary school education, which includes high school. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulwich College Seoul
Dulwich College Seoul (DCSL; ko, 덜위치칼리지서울영국학교) is a British international school in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Affiliated with Dulwich College, it serves students from Reception (age 4) to Year 13 (age 18; US Grade 12). It was established in 2010, opening on August 20 of that year. There are currently around 700 students, and 200 staff in the school. It is adjacent to Gangnam. In addition it is in proximity to Seorae Village and Hannam-dong Hannam-dong is a '' dong'', neighbourhood of Yongsan-gu in Seoul, South Korea. One of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, it has been portrayed continuously in South Korea's popular culture as a wealthy and luxurious spot, and for this ..., each being a five-minute and fifteen minute car drive away. The shinbanpo subway station is also a two-minute walk from campus. " Dulwi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaddaeus Ropac (galleries)
Thaddaeus Ropac are a group of galleries founded in 1981 by the Austrian gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac and has since specialized in International Contemporary Art. The group has galleries in Paris Marais, Paris Pantin, Salzburg and London. History Lienz and Salzburg The gallery was founded 1981 as "''Galerie Thaddäus J. Ropač/ Edition Rotha''" in Lienz, Austria. It opened a gallery in Salzburg in 1983, first located at the ''Kaigasse 40'', and then moved to Villa Kast in 1989, a 19th-century townhouse in Mirabell Garden. In March 2010, the gallery opened its "''Salzburg Halle''", an additional exhibition space within an industrial building close to the city centre of Salzburg. Paris In 1990, Thaddaeus Ropac opened his primary Paris space in the Le Marais quarter. The Pantin location opened in October 2012. London Thaddaeus Ropac opened a gallery branch in the Ely House in Mayfair, London, in Spring 2017. Seoul In mid-2021, Thaddaeus Ropac announced plans to open a new spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pace Gallery
The Pace Gallery is an American contemporary and modern art gallery with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in Boston by Arne Glimcher in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong Kong, Palo Alto, Geneva, Seoul, East Hampton, and Palm Beach. The gallery is named after Glimcher's father's nickname "Pacey".Kelly Crow (August 26, 2011)Keeping Pace''Wall Street Journal''. It moved to Manhattan in 1963. Gallery spaces Pace In 1960, at the age of 22, Arnold (Arne) Glimcher founded The Pace Gallery in Boston, which he ran with his wife, Milly, and his mother, Eva. In 1963, Glimcher partnered with Fred Mueller to bring the gallery to New York, where it opened a location on east 57th Street with the help of Ivan Karp, a close friend of Glimcher's. In 1965, Glimcher closed the Boston gallery and moved his family permanently to New York. Three years later, the gallery moved to its long-time location at 32 East 57th Street. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The letters for the five basic consonants reflect the shape of the speech organs used to pronounce them, and they are systematically modified to indicate phonetic features; similarly, the vowel letters are systematically modified for related sounds, making Hangul a featural writing system. It has been described as a syllabic alphabet as it combines the features of alphabetic and syllabic writing systems, although it is not necessarily an abugida. Hangul was created in 1443 CE by King Sejong the Great in an attempt to increase literacy by serving as a complement (or alternative) to the logographic Sino-Korean ''Hanja'', which had been used by Koreans as its primary script to write the Korean language since as early as the Gojoseon period (spanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea International Broadcasting Foundation
The Korea International Broadcasting Foundation (KIBF; Korean: 한국국제방송교류재단) is a South Korean non-profit group media broadcasting network provider. The company describes its main focus as producing 24/7 news services to improve the international image of South Korea. It competes with KBS World, which is owned by the state-owned KBS, as they both target the international public. The channels have seemingly at least some overlapping, and the need of KIBF as a PR company has come into question. History The company was founded on April 10, 1996 and began domestic broadcasting the following year. In 1999, it began broadcasting TV to the rest of the world. By 2000, its satellite signal had covered the globe. These broadcasts were primarily in English, with subtitle service provided in multiple languages including Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Indonesian and Vietnamese. This service is now known as Arirang World. 2003 saw the launch of Arirang Radio, an Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
