![Seoul](/images/ik-en/2025/img_localregion01_01.jpg)
Seoul, emerging as the
Northeast Asia’s Business Hub
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Key Industries
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fintech, IT convergence engineering
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Population
9,668,465 -
Number of Companies
823,416 -
Employees
5,224,805 -
Amount of Production
353.6 *unit: one billion dollars
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Seoul, the capital of Korea, is rising rapidly as the Northeast Asia’s business hub. It is geographically situated between Asia’s two largest economic powers including China and Japan. Although making up 0.6 percent of Korean territory, Seoul generates 21 percent of the national GDP and serves as a financial hub in which more than 50 percent of finance is concentrated.