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unusual facts about Sejong-ro



Gwanghwamun Plaza

On 29 November 2009, parts of Sejong-ro were closed to traffic for twelve hours to film lengthy gunfight scenes for Korean Broadcasting System (KBS)'s 2009 spy action television drama series Iris, starring Lee Byung-hun, Kim Tae-hee, Jung Joon-ho, Kim Seung-woo and Kim So-yeon.

Hangul Day

According to the Sejong Sillok (세종실록;世宗實綠), King Sejong proclaimed publication of Hunmin Jeongeum (훈민정음;訓民正音), the document introducing the newly created alphabet which was also originally called by the same name, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 1447.

Origin of hangul

However, Gari Ledyard, Sejong Professor of Korean History Emeritus at Columbia University, notes that the character 古 gǔ also functions as a phonetic component of 蒙古 Měnggǔ "Mongol".

Youngmi Kim

Even before finishing her education, she performed in her first complete opera, in the role of Violetta in Verdi's La traviata, at the National Theater of Seoul in 1977, and in 1978 she performed the role of Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème, at the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul.


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