| I just heard that Seoul will changed to Shou'er several days ago. And this surprised me. I do't think that Shou'er is better than Seoul. Maybe we are used to using 汉城 for most of the years. I heard that from one of my classmates, and he said that the Korea governmet thought that the "汉" sounds like China, and the name really have nothing with Seoul. In other counties, people call "Seoul", and only in China we call it by Chinese. The changing of the name is only in China.
Actually, in Korean language, "서울"(Seoul) doesn't have the meaning of a name. The meaning of "Seoul" is "capital". From this we can see, that Korea's capital doesn't have a name. They just call it "capital". As we know that there is a river cross the city, so we call the city by the name of the river (汉江), and then they have "汉城". Korean people use the name of a long time and now they wanna changed it. I really don't know what they are thinking about. Just let it be. I won't change my mind and call it "Shou'er". |
Seoul Changes Chinese Name