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The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea (Korean: 대한민국학술원), is the senior national organization of distinguished Korean scientists and scholars. It was founded to promote learning and research in all areas of sciences by conferring membership and preferential treatment to those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of sciences and learning. The Academy consists of 150 Fellows who are selected by their peers for their contributions to the sciences and education.

The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital (SSMH; Korean: 가톨릭대학교 서울성모병원) is the representative teaching and research hospital of the Catholic University of Korea's College of Medicine located in Seoul, South Korea. SSMH operates under the Catholic Medical Center (CMC), which owns eight subsidiary hospitals and seven research centers in Korea. In March 2023, the hospital was ranked 91st among over 2,300 hospitals in the world.

Seorae Village (Korean: 서래마을), sometimes nicknamed "Montmartre", due to its hilltop location, or sometimes "French Village", is a small, affluent French ethnic enclave in Banpo-dong & Bangbae-dong, Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It is home to about 560 French people, roughly 40% of the French community in South Korea. Most of them are employees of French corporations doing business in the country. The majority (370) of the French population are children.The village began to form there in 1985, with the movement of Lycée Français de Séoul to the area. The school, one of the city's French international school, had formerly been located just north of the Han River in Hannam-dong, a large international neighborhood. French people with children followed, as did bakeries and wine shops. The village is the site of a 20,000 m2 park, "Montmartre Park", which is often the site of public events for foreigners. It is near Express Bus Terminal Station on Seoul Subway Line 3. The area has a large concentration of European-style restaurants and dessert cafes, as well as wineries and cafes stand along its main street.

The Supreme Court of Korea (Korean: 대법원; Hanja: 大法院; RR: Daebeobwon) is the highest ordinary court in the judicial branch of South Korea, seated in Seocho, Seoul. Established under Chapter 5 of the Constitution of South Korea, the Court has ultimate and comprehensive jurisdiction over all cases except those cases falling under the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court of Korea. It consists of fourteen Justices, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Korea. The Supreme Court is at the top of the hierarchy of all ordinary courts in South Korea, and traditionally represented the conventional judiciary of South Korea. The Supreme Court has equivalent status as one of the two highest courts in South Korea. The other is the Constitutional Court of Korea.

Seocho Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 2. It is located in Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul.

Express Bus Terminal Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 3, Line 7, and Line 9. The stations are located in Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul.It is located underneath the Seoul Express Bus Terminal (a.k.a. Gangnam Bus Terminal). There are several stores, including clothing and book stores, located throughout the station. The station also offers free internet portals for browsing the web and checking e-mail, which are located by the number 3 line. According to KT-published statistics in December 2010, the station was the network's most popular WiFi hotspot of all Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations, followed by Sadang Station, Dongdaemun Station, Jamsil Station and Jongno 3-ga Station. On November 19, 2010, the network's WiFi traffic at the station peaked at 23 gigabytes.This station is one of the most crowded subway station in the country, along with Gangnam, Jamsil, Samseong, Sindorim, and Sillim Station.The newly renovated Shinsegae department store is now connected from exit 8 into the famille street food section.

The Seoul Express Bus Terminal is the key bus terminal located in Seocho-gu, Seoul. It is connected underground to both the gangnam branch of the Shinsaegae department store and the banpo underground market, as well as containing its own share of stores. as of September 2021, the third floor is abandoned spare a single sewing shop.

Sinbanpo Station is a railway station on Line 9 of the Seoul Subway.

On June 29, 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history. It was the deadliest non-deliberate modern building collapse until the 2013 Dhaka garment factory collapse in Bangladesh.Construction on the building commenced in 1987 and was completed in 1990. The company initially contracted to build the structure withdrew after the chairman of Sampoong Group's construction division, Lee Joon, demanded changes to the concrete support columns that introduced structural concerns. Joon ultimately used his own company to complete construction. Investigators blamed the collapse primarily on the column specifications which were incorrect for a flat-slab building design. Joon was found guilty of criminal negligence and sentenced to 10.5 years in prison.

Sehwa Girls' High School (Korean: 세화여자고등학교; Hanja: 世和女子高等學校) is a private girls high school located in Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea.

Seoul Nat'l Univ. of Education Station is a station in the Seocho District of Seoul, on Seoul Subway Line 2 and Line 3. It is usually noted on station signs and on-board announcements that the station serves (the Supreme) Court & Prosecutors' Office. The station is a transfer point between the circular Line 2 (the busiest line on the network) which runs east–west at this point, and the north-south Line 3. The station is an extremely busy transfer point for those travelling between central Seoul and Gangnam district, Teheran Valley and the COEX/KWTC complex. The station is commonly referred to as "Kyodae" or "Gyodae". The Seoul National University of Education is located nearby.

Banpo Station is a metro station on Seoul Subway Line 7 located in Jamwon-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul. Despite its name, the station is not located in Banpo-dong, but instead in Jamwon. It has 6 entrances that they are all right side entrance and they have screen doors right before entering the train. It takes 4~8 minutes between 2 trains and next stations are Nonhyeon and Seoul Express Bus Terminal. It is only 500m long between Banpo station and two other Stations next to it. The station number is 733.