Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun put forward this idea when he was running for president in 2002, and proposed to build an administrative capital outside Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in order to alleviate the development pressure of Seoul. The new administrative center city was later named Sejong.
From the administrative capital to the administrative center city, and then to the scientific education city, the establishment of Sejong City once again returned to the old road of history with the South Korean National Assembly's veto of the Sejong City amendment led by Lee Myung-bak's government on June 29, 2000.
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South Korea's dual state administration can no longer meet the needs of the development of the current era. In the mid-1980s, in order to prepare for the war, South Korea decided to split the administrative organization into two parts. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Ministry of National Defense are located in Seoul, and the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the Ministry of Industry and Resources are located in Guo Chuan, Gyeonggi Province, 30 kilometers away from Seoul, which is called the second administrative capital.
With the development of the times, as the product of the cold war, the state administrative organs of the two places can no longer meet the realistic requirements. Continuing this pattern will affect the prosperity and development of South Korea.
In addition, the strategic adjustment of US troops stationed in South Korea, especially the withdrawal of US troops stationed in South Korea from the periphery of Seoul to the hinterland of South Korea, will make Seoul lose the protection of US troops. Therefore, from the perspective of security and strategic depth, it is also an important historical decision to move the administrative capital south.
As for whether moving the capital will harm the political, economic and social skeleton of South Korea, the South Korean government believes that moving the capital will promote the overall development of the country. Because it just moved to the administrative capital, Seoul's position as the economic center of South Korea has not changed.
People's Network-South Korea's move to the capital is full of twists and turns.