No, that’s not a typo. Nor is it Engrish. For a long time I hadn’t even noticed the anomaly in Ewha Womans University’s name; then, when I did, it rankled my English-major sensibilities. This was the university that produced South Korea’s first female Constitutional Court justice, its first female prime minister, that was one of…
In the little spur of Seoul that pokes up in its far northwestern corner, Gupabal is barely in the city. If you zoom in on the station on Google Maps, what you’ll see is an area with two clumps of apartment buildings and a lot of empty white space. Those apartment buildings feel less like…
Between 1964 and 1989 the German chronobiologist Rütger Wever conducted a series of experiments in an underground bunker in Andechs, Germany, in which over 400 test subjects were deprived of all external time cues – variations in light, temperature, electromagnetic fields – anything that might signal to them what time of day it was or how…
As we’ve traipsed all about Seoul in the course of this project, one of the things that’s struck me most, that I was totally wrong about before we began, is how many waterways there are. Seoul will never be confused with Bangkok or Venice, but if you walk around or simply take a good look…
The two of us were recently interviewed for another piece in the Korea Herald, this one by Sarah Berlow, which you can check out here. It’s a couple weeks old at this point, but we only found out the other day that it had been published. It’s a nice piece, but there were a couple…
Seoul Sub→urban 