Millennium Hilton Seoul is a luxury hotel in

Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...

, part of

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. The hotel opened in 1983 as the Seoul Hilton and is located at 50 Sowol-ro, Jung-gu, in the central business and shopping district in downtown Seoul. The hotel was originally owned by

Daewoo Group Daewoo ( ; Hangul: , Hanja: , ; literally "great universe" and a portmanteau of "dae" meaning great, and the given name of founder and chairman Kim Woo-choong) also known as the Daewoo Group, was a major South Korean chaebol (type of conglomerat ...

, which sold it to

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in 1999. In December 2021, City Developments announced plans to sell the hotel and adjacent land to

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, a Korean real estate firm, for 1.1 trillion won ($934 million). Millennium Seoul Hilton is listed in the

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.Forbes Travel Guide - Millennium Seoul Hilton
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