This must seem a bit like the hand bursting up through the ground, reaching out from beyond the grave, this sudden appearance of posts, but we assure you — we’re not actually (un)dead. Life just caught up and took us elsewhere with other projects and more consuming job commitments, leaving us without the time to…
Well, hell…I just realized this post has been sitting in draft, unpublished, for five years. I guess we’ll put it up. One of my very first nights in Seoul, way back in the early days after stepping off my first Chicago – Incheon flight, was spent in the alleys of Apgujeong’s Rodeo Street, cluelessly tagging…
Nope, not dead. And still in Seoul, in fact. I’ve just been preoccupied with other projects and, you know, life and stuff. But I’m thrilled to announce that one of those projects, after multiple delays and false starts, is finally, finally done. At long last, the English-language version of the Seoul Sub→urban book is here,…
Hi everyone, first of all, a thousand apologies for our total disappearance for the past few months. That’s my fault, as I started a new job in April; I’m no longer working just part-time (boo-hoo, I know) and in fact am often working more than full-time, leaving me with far less opportunity to work on…
Gayang is a neighborhood that can pretty succinctly be summed up by saying this: It’s a good place to raise a family. You know this neighborhood. Maybe you even live here. It’s a pretty new part of town. The apartment towers and commercial buildings are clean, tidy, probably less than a couple decades old. On…
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…
Late to the fold but breaking the mold! Seoul Sub→urban is on Instagram! Follow us at https://www.instagram.com/seoul.suburban/ to street beat Seoul city one subway stop at a time.
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…
Seoul Sub→urban 