After passing through Ichon Station, Line 4 turns north and for several kilometers runs exactly parallel to Line 1 – the two lines no more than a block apart along some stretches – before peeling away and turning east around Namdaemun Market. This little quirk of infrastructure puts Sinyongsan Station right on the doorstep of…
Over the past few months we’ve taken this little show to both Seoul Forest Station and Ttukseom Resort Station and, with Seongsu and Konkuk University both long in the bag, I’d been meaning to make it back to this last stop on the little spit of land wedged between the Han River and the Jungnang…
Should you ever find yourself sick of the new Seoul, of the gentrifying Seoul, of the Zara-wearing, cream pasta-slurping, Kakao-tapping, latte-sipping, craft beer-tippling bourgeois masses, well, Cheongnyangni has your cure. This may be the least trendy neighborhood in the city. It’s no hyperbole to say that 80% of the people here are over 50. Nobody’s…
Almost any time you step onto the Korea University (고려대학교) campus, one of the sights you’re bound to see is large groups of high school students being led around by their teachers or KU student docents. They’re there to get a taste of the university life and, maybe more to the point, a bit of…
Oh my god! We’re big brothers! Seoul Sub→urban is happy to announce that we now have a sister blog in Hong Kong. Started by Jung Im and Lee Mordell, Hong Kong Sub→urban is now doing the same thing we’ve been doing here: using the Hong Kong MTR to explore one of the world’s most fascinating cities.…
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