What’s most striking about the area around Bangi Station is how green it is, at least by Seoul standards. Nearly every street in the neighborhood is tree-lined, numerous walls are covered with ivy, and despite the presence of some very large roads there’s far less of the concrete jungle feeling you get in other parts…
Bokjeong Station is, for all intents and purposes, simply an extension of the surrounding highways, of which there are a lot. How do I commute thee? Let me count the ways: the Seoul Ring Expressway (서울외곽순환고속도로), the Songpa Highway(송파대로), Yakjin-ro (약진로), the Seongnam Highway (성남대로), Heolleung-ro (헌릉로), and the Dongbu Expressway (동부간선도로). The prime function…
I have to break Jangji up into two not-quite-symmetrical parts, as the east and west sides of the station bear almost no relation to each other. East There isn’t a whole lot of interest around here, most of the area around Exits 1 and 2 being taken up by a forest of apartment towers called…
We weren’t about to trek all the way out to far southeast Seoul without getting our money’s worth, so following our exploration of the area around Geoyeo Station (거여역) we went a bit further east, to the last stop on the purple line’s south spur. A few weeks ago we were surprised to find a…
For our most recent trip we hoofed it about as far as we could hoof it from our respective neighborhoods, to the far southeastern reaches of the city, beyond the Seoul Ring Expressway (서울외곽순환고속도로) even, to Geoyeo Station. The holiday season had begun to permeate even this corner of the city, and several of the…
Seoul Sub→urban 