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Seoul Botanical Garden

Seoul Botanical Garden (서울식물원), officially Seoul Botanic Park, is a 504,000 m² botanical garden and park in Magok, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, opened 2018-2019, with four zones, a 12-cities theme greenhouse, and about 4,600 plant species.

Seoul Broadcasting System (서울방송)

Seoul Broadcasting System (서울방송, SBS) is a South Korean private terrestrial broadcaster established November 14, 1990; radio launched March 20, 1991, TV December 9, 1991, with SBS 8 News at 8 pm.

Seoul Busters

Seoul Busters (강매강) is a 2024 Disney+ Korean comedy crime series, 20 episodes, about Korea's lowest-ranked homicide squad at Songwon Police Station led by new elite captain Dongbang Yu-bin (Kim Dong-wook), based in an old daycare center.

Seoul Fashion Week (서울패션위크)

Seoul Fashion Week (서울패션위크) is a biannual fashion business event held each March and October at Seoul's Dongdaemun Design Plaza, hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

Seoul Grand Park

서울대공원 (Seoul Grand Park) is a 9.13-million-m² park complex in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi-do, opened May 1, 1984 when Changgyeongwon's zoo moved there; includes Seoul Zoo (first Asian AZA accreditation, 2019), botanical garden, Seoul Land, and MMCA.

Seoul Halloween crowd crush

The Seoul Halloween crowd crush killed at least 159 people in a narrow alley in the Itaewon district of Seoul, South Korea, during Halloween festivities on October 29, 2022.

Seoul Institute of the Arts (서울예술대학교)

Seoul Institute of the Arts (서울예술대학교, SeoulArts) is a private arts college in Ansan, South Korea, founded in 1962 by playwright Yoo Chi-jin from the Korean Theater Academy and the Namsan Drama Center, offering AFA, BFA, and MFA programs.

Seoul Land

Seoul Land (서울랜드) is South Korea's first theme park, opened May 1988 in Gwacheon inside Seoul Grand Park before the Seoul Olympics, with five themed areas, about 40 rides, and mascots Arongi and Darongi.

Seoul Metro

Seoul Metro (서울교통공사) is the Seoul public corporation that operates the city's subway Lines 1 through 8, carrying about 6.6 million passengers a day after a 2017 merger.

Seoul Metropolitan Library

The Seoul Metropolitan Library (서울도서관) is the central public library of Seoul, South Korea, opened in 2012 in the former Seoul City Hall building at 110 Sejong-daero, Jung-gu.

Seoul Metropolitan Subway (수도권 전철)

The Seoul Metropolitan Subway (수도권 전철) is the urban rail network serving Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, opened in 1974 and among the world's busiest metro systems.

Seoul Music Awards (서울가요대상)

Seoul Music Awards (서울가요대상), annual South Korean pop music awards founded 1990 by Sports Seoul; honors Daesang, Bonsang, rookie and genre awards via judges, sales, and fan voting; ATEEZ won the 2026 Daesang in Incheon.

Seoul National University (서울대학교)

Seoul National University (서울대학교), Korea's first national comprehensive university, founded 1946 from Gyeongseong Imperial University and other colleges; Gwanak, Yeongeon, Pyeongchang, and Siheung campuses; 30,638 students; QS 2027 world 38th.

Seoul National University Hospital

Seoul National University Hospital (서울대학교병원, SNUH) is a university hospital and special corporation in Jongno-gu, Seoul, serving as South Korea's national central hospital; it was founded as Jejungwon in 1885.

Seoul National University Hospital massacre

The Seoul National University Hospital massacre (서울대학교 부속병원 학살 사건) was the killing of wounded South Korean soldiers and civilian patients by North Korean forces on June 28–29, 1950.

Seoul Ring Expressway

The Seoul Ring Expressway (서울외곽순환고속도로), renamed the Capital Region First Ring Expressway in 2020, is a 127 km toll expressway forming a ring around Seoul, fully opened in December 2007.

Seoul Science High School

Seoul Science High School (서울과학고등학교, SSHS), opened March 1989, is a public Seoul high school for scientifically gifted students; first with a two-year KAIST early-graduation track, converted in 2009 to a gifted school with 170-credit R&E curriculum.

Seoul Station (film)

Seoul Station (서울역) is a 2016 South Korean animated zombie horror film written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho, following survivors of a zombie outbreak at Seoul Station.

Seoul Station (서울역)

Seoul Station (서울역), opened 1900 as Gyeongseong Station, is Seoul's main railway hub for KTX, the Airport Railroad, and subway Lines 1 and 4; its 1925 headhouse is now Culture Station Seoul 284, and the area hosts Seoullo 7017 and major redevelopment.

Seoul Subway Line 5 (서울 지하철 5호선)

Seoul Subway Line 5 (서울 지하철 5호선) is an east-west line of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, running 52.3 km from Banghwa to Sangil-dong and Macheon with 51 stations.

Seoul waterworks

Seoul waterworks (서울 상수도) is the municipal system treating and piping drinking water in Seoul, South Korea, begun in 1908 and reaching full coverage in the 1990s.

Seoul World Cup Stadium

Seoul World Cup Stadium (서울월드컵경기장), also known as Sangam World Cup Stadium, is a football stadium in Seoul opened in 2001 for the 2002 World Cup.

Seowon Abolition

The Seowon Abolition (서원철폐) was the staged demolition of most Confucian academies in Joseon Korea between 1864 and 1871 under King Gojong, sparing only 47 royally sanctioned academies nationwide.

Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies

Seowon (서원) were private Neo-Confucian academies of Joseon Korea combining learning, scholar veneration, and nature; nine, from Sosuseowon (1543) to Donam-seowon, were UNESCO-inscribed in 2019.

SEP-IRA

A SEP-IRA, or simplified employee pension, is a retirement plan created by Congress in 1978 in which employers, including the self-employed, make tax-deductible contributions to traditional IRAs for workers.

Sep. Bibuli

Sep. Bibuli (Sepulcrum Bibuli) is the Republican-era tomb of the plebeian aedile Gaius Publicius Bibulus at the foot of Rome's Capitoline Hill, a rare travertine distyle-in-antis funerary monument with a senate-granted inscription, still standing beside the Vittoriano.

Sep. C. Maenius Bassus

Sep. C. Maenius Bassus is a first-century CE Roman podium tomb on the Via Valeria northeast of Tibur (Tivoli), built for the municipal magistrate Gaius Maenius Bassus.

Sep. Eurysacis

Sep. Eurysacis, commonly called the Tomb of the Baker, is the late Republican tomb of Marcus Vergilius Eurysaces, a wealthy Roman baker, near Porta Maggiore in Rome.

Sep. Geta

Sep. Geta (Sepolcro di Geta) is a Roman tower tomb at no. 41 Via Appia Antica, Rome, traditionally but wrongly identified as the tomb of Geta, murdered by Caracalla in AD 212; the Severans were buried in Hadrian's Mausoleum.

Sep. Plautii

Sep. Plautii (Mausoleo dei Plauzi), the Tomb of the Plautii: first-century CE Roman family mausoleum at Ponte Lucano on the Via Tiburtina near Tivoli, built by consul M. Plautius Silvanus (2 BCE), travertine drum on square base, reused as a 1465 tower.