Seoul Street () is a street that runs in the north of

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, close to the city's

Evin Evin is a neighbourhood in the north of Tehran. The district consists of an old section filled with orchards and gardens of old houses and a new section with high rises and skyscrapers. It is adjacent to Shahid Beheshti University campus. It is ...

district.

Name

On 27 June 1977, the

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suggested that the cities of

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(the capital of South Korea) and Tehran (the capital of Iran) exchange the names of streets on the occasion of the visit to South Korea of

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, the

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. The following year, "Samneungno" street was renamed

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(translation: Tehran Boulevard). Seoul Street's Korean counterpart then ran through a relatively underdeveloped area that had been annexed into Seoul in 1963, which then experienced phenomenal growth and waves of construction. Today, Tehran Boulevard is colloquially known as "Teheran Valley" (after

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) due to the number of

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-related companies operating there, with Teheran-ro becoming one of the busiest streets in South Korea.

Buildings around the street

* Tehran International Exhibition *

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* Sheikh Bahaei Square * ٍExploration Directorate of NIOC

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Streets in Tehran Iran–South Korea relations {{Tehran-geo-stub

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Buildings around the street

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