What is more, Seoul is the sixth most powerful city on the planet, beating the likes of Hong Kong, according to the Global Power City Index 2017, compiled by the Mori Memorial Foundation’s Institute for Urban Strategies that examines six parametres including economy, research, culture, liveability and accessibility. Among the world’s cities, it ranks fourth, the Brookings Institution has found. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of $903 billion, according to 2015 figures from Oxford Economics, an advisory firm, the city’s economy is equal to 67% of the national GDP. Living in Seoul: a megacity with a high quality of lifeĪs for quality of life, Seoul has reached seventh in the world, according to 2016 figures from the Sustainable Cities Index by Arcadis, a design and consultancy firm. And so a city that was a chaotic megalopolis 20 years ago has become a rich and powerful “smart” megacity. Sustainability in Seoul has recently become another one, a method adopted by this growing city in response to some of the world’s worst air pollution. But it is ever mindful of its people, rising through the international rankings for the quality of life it offers.īusiness, technology and transport infrastructure are the three pillars on which Seoul has based its success. The soul of this city of 10 million people – 25 million when including the metropolitan area – is instead manifested by the speed with which it forges ahead towards a future of advanced technology and avant-garde infrastructure. People living in Seoul express their love for it with a playful alliteration in English, saying that « Seoul is the soul of Asia».
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