Seoul

"A city torn."

- Pacific Rim Sourcebook Seoul, the capital of United Korea, is a huge metropolis where modern skyscrapers, high-tech subways and pop culture meet Buddhist temples, palaces and street markets. Notable attractions include futuristic Dongdaemun Design Plaza, a convention hall with curving architecture and a rooftop park; Gyeongbokgung Palace, which once had more than 7,000 rooms; and Jogyesa Temple, site of ancient locust and pine trees.

History
Seoul is on the western side of the peninsula, near the 38th Parallel. This put it at the center of the two Korean Wars, but it's been focal point for strife its entire history.

It was a humble village until I SongGye, the founder of Rissi-Chonson, built his capital city here. The first invasion was by the 16th-century Japanese warlord, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who burnt the city down. During the 19th-century, until 1910, Korea was center to the struggle between the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Czarist Russia, and Imperial Japan. And Seoul was the center of that maelstorm, but the Yangban just tried to make profit out of the situation. In 1910, Korea became a colony of Japan, and the Governor's House was built in Seoul. In 1945, after the Japanese surrrender, Korea became the center of the Communist Chinese/Soviet/US battle, and Seoul was burned down twice during the First Korean War. But they rebuilt it again.

Afterwards, as the capital of Hanguk, it made a tremendous leap into the corporate consciousness. Of course, it got trashed right away during the Second War, and General I based his command in Busan. Being within 100 km of the former Hanguk/Chonson border made it the prime target of every Choson Soldier. Now they are rebuilding-again. Some blocks are untouched (but sooty) buidlings from before the war, while the next block may be flattened rubble, or one of the brand-new towers.