South Korea’s presidential favourite has plans for new ‘de facto’ capital

Construction of Sejong began in 2008, and it now has many high-rise apartment complexes [David D Lee/Al Jazeera]

Sejong, South Korea – By the standards of South Korea’s teeming metropolises, Sejong is not much of a city.

With a population of 400,000 people, Sejong, a planned city located about 100km (62 miles) south of Seoul, does not even crack the top 20 urban centres.