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Express Bus Terminal Station
Express Bus Terminal Station is a station on Seoul Subway Line 3, Line 7, and Line 9. The stations are located in the Greater Gangnam Area, Banpo-dong, Seocho District, Seoul, Korea. It is located underneath the Seoul Express Bus Terminal (a.k.a. Gangnam Bus Terminal). There are several stores, including clothing and book stores, located throughout the station. The station also offers free internet access. According to KT-published statistics in December 2010, the station was the network's most popular WiFi hotspot of all Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations, followed by Sadang Station, Dongdaemun Station, Jamsil Station and Jongno 3-ga Station. On November 19, 2010, the network's WiFi traffic at the station peaked at 23 gigabytes. This station is one of the most crowded subway stations in the country, along with Gangnam station, Jamsil, Samseong, Sindorim, and Sillim Station. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banpo-dong
Banpo-dong () is a ''Dong (administrative division), dong'' (neighborhood) of Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. Banpo-dong is divided into five different dong which are Banpobon-dong, Banpo 1-dong, 2-dong, 3-dong and 4-dong. The neighborhood is just north of Express Bus Terminal Station, Seoul, Express Bus Terminal station and to the south of the Han River (Korea), Han River. Some of the apartment buildings were built in the late 1970s but the area is considered affluent due to its central location within Seoul, proximity to the Han River Park, shopping malls, and mass transit transportation options. This area is also specialized for education, since banpo-shopping-center contains numerous educational academies of the greater Gangnam area. Banpo is currently going on a constant re-modelling of the old apartments as well. Banpo is also famous for its France, French town which is called Seorae Village in the greater Gangnam area. The area is home of Seorae Village, a small Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elementary School
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling. The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as a single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1: Primary education or first stage of basic education.Annex III in the ISCED 2011 English.pdf Navigate to International St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Korea
The National Library of Korea () is located in the Seocho District of Seoul, South Korea. It was established in 1945. It houses more than 10 million volumes, including over 1,134,000 foreign-language books and some of the National Treasures of South Korea. History Korea did not have a national modern library until the Korean Empire period. The first modern library on the peninsula was the Daehan Library, which was established in 1906 by , Lee Beom-gu and Yun Chi-ho. However, it was not publicly accessible. Its 100,000 books were eventually confiscated by the government in 1911. The first library that allowed free public access (although it was still privately owned) was called Daedong Seogwan. It also printed its own books. However, the Japanese colonial government eventually limited access to printed materials, including newspapers, magazines, and books. It was then restricted to printing approved media and propaganda. After the 1919 March 1st Movement protests again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic University Of Korea
The Catholic University of Korea () is a private Roman Catholic university in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It was established in 1855. The Catholic University of Korea operates campuses in Seoul and in the neighboring Bucheon. The university's school of medicine operates eight affiliated hospitals throughout the country. The Catholic University of Korea offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in Catholic theology, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and engineering. History The university traces its roots to St. Joseph's Seminary in Baeron, a Catholic refuge in modern-day Jecheon, North Chungcheong Province. It was founded in 1855 before Christianity was legalized. After the legalization of Christianity, the school moved to Yongsan District, Seoul, in 1887, and was renamed Seminary of Sacred Heart of Jesus. A hospital associated with the seminary was opened in 1936. The seminary became Songsin College in 1947 and the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinsegae
Shinsegae Inc. (, ) is a South Korean department store Franchising, franchise, along with several other businesses, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm is an affiliate of Shinsegae Group, South Korea's leading retail ''chaebol'', and one of the big three department store firms in Korea, along with Lotte Corporation, Lotte and Hyundai Department Store. Its flagship store in Centum City, Busan, was the world's largest department store at , surpassing Macy's flagship Macy's Herald Square, Herald Square in New York City in 2009. Shinsegae was the first credit card company in South Korea. They issued their own charge card from 1967 to 2000. In 2000, Shinsegae sold their credit card division to KorAm Bank, which was later acquired by Citibank Korea. Shinsegae was originally part of the Samsung, Samsung Group, from which it separated in the 1990s along with CJ Group (Food/Chemicals/Entertainment), Saehan, Saehan Group (Electronic Media/Apparel/Textiles), and the Hansol, Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriott Hotel
Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International's brand of full-service hotels and resorts based in Bethesda, Maryland. As of June 30, 2020, there were 582 hotels and resorts with 205,053 rooms operating under the brand, in addition to 160 hotels with 47,765 rooms planned for development. History Foundation and early years The Marriott hotel chain began when the Hot Shoppes, Inc. restaurant company decided to diversify into hotels. Its first hotel opened in 1957 in Virginia, the Marriott Motor Hotel Twin Bridges, Marriott Motor Hotel, adjacent to The Pentagon and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Washington National Airport. The company's second hotel was the nearby Marriott Key Bridge Motor Hotel, which opened in 1959. This was soon followed by Marriott Motor Hotels in Dallas in 1960, Philadelphia in 1961, Atlanta in 1965, and Saddle Brook, New Jersey in 1966. Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed the Marriott Corporation in 1967, by which point it was operating 8 hote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimpo International Airport Station
Gimpo International Airport Station is a subway, railway and light rail station on Seoul Subway Line 5, Line 9, AREX, the Gimpo Goldline and the Seohae Line. True to its name, it serves the nearby Gimpo Airport, the hub of domestic flights in the Seoul metropolitan area as well as a limited number of regional international flights to and from China, Japan, and Taiwan. Upon its opening in 1996, it became the first railway station in the Korean Peninsula to directly serve an airport. Gallery File:202403 Main Concourse of Gimpo International Airport Station.jpg, Main concourse File:Seoul-metro-512-Gimpo-international-airport-station-platform-20180914-170534.jpg, Line 5 platform File:202403 AREX and L9 Eastbound Platform of Gimpo International Airport Station.jpg, Line 9 and AREX platform File:202403 Entrance to Gimpo Goldline and Seohae Line Concourse at Gimpo Airport Station.jpg, Entrance to Gimpo Goldline and Seohae Line structure File:202403 Seohae Line Concourse of Gimpo Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul National University Of Education Station
Seoul Nat'l Univ. of Education Station is a station in the Seocho District of Seoul, on Seoul Subway Line 2 and Line 3. It is usually noted on station signs and on-board announcements that the station serves (the Supreme) Court & Prosecutors' Office. The station is a transfer point between the circular Line 2 (the busiest line on the network) which runs east–west at this point, and the north-south Line 3. The station is an extremely busy transfer point for those travelling between central Seoul and Gangnam district, Teheran Valley and the COEX/ KWTC complex. The station is commonly referred to as "Gyodae". The Seoul National University of Education The Seoul National University of Education (SNUE) is a public university in Seocho District, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea, which provides specialized training for future public elementary school teachers in South Korea. Founded in May 1946 un ... is located nearby. Station layout Gallery File:Seoul-metro-223-Seoul-na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
