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The Embassy of the United States in Seoul is the embassy of the United States in the Republic of Korea (South Korea), in the capital city of Seoul. The embassy is charged with diplomacy and South Korea–United States relations. The United States Ambassador to Korea is the head of the diplomatic mission of the United States to South Korea. ==History== The United States has had diplomatic relations with Korea, with interruption, since the late 1870s. Korean government relations with nations not aligned with Qing China were more or less unknown and not welcome before that time. As China's power began to seriously wane in the 1800s, and as Japan's power, and increasing industrialization was on the rise, Korea began to make changes and make overtures to other nations. The first envoys from the U.S were sent to Seoul by the late 1870s. In 1883 the first Ambassador to the Joseon Dynasty Korea arrived in Seoul and an embassy of sorts began operation. Soon an embassy was run out of the Ambassador's residence, a villa given to the U.S. in 1888 by a Korean royal, located just behind the Deoksugung. This site is still owned by the U.S. government, and is the current site of the Habib House, the official ambassadorial residence of the U.S. Ambassador. The Habib House was built as a hanok (traditional Korean home) in 1974 and is named after Ambassador Philip Charles Habib. () The rise of the Empire of Japan as a great power began with the Japanese victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War (1895) and victory of Japan over Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1905). In 1910, Korea entered a period of Japanese rule that ended its independence. After this was formalized in the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, the U.S. mission in Seoul was shut down. A U.S. embassy was not again established in Korea until the end of World War II, after the Allied forces defeated the Japanese. American and Soviet forces took control of Korea from the Japanese. The Americans set up an American military government in Seoul in the South, and while the Soviets set up a government in Pyongyang in the north. The U.S. recognized the government in Seoul in 1948, the same year North Korea was recognized by the Soviets. From 1948 the American embassy operated out of a leased hotel building. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Embassy of the United States, Seoul」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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