Seoul

Seoul was a city located in the country of Korea.

In the 6 December 1926 issue of The New York Ghost, C. Williamsum reported that master aurologists had recently been brought to New York from Seoul to help investigate the mysterious, "sinister" aura affecting the city at the time.

Behind the scenes

 * The reference to the city as "Seoul" in a prop newspaper dated 1926 featured in the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them constitutes something of an anachronism. In 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan, and Imperial authorities changed the city's name from Hanseong to Gyeongseong (Keijo in Japanese), as the hanja characters used to spell "Hanseong" could be confused with the hanja character for people of Han Chinese ancestry. The city's name officially became Seoul in 1945 after the Japanese annexation of Korea ended.