Before starting this post proper, we’d like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to Nathan Greenberg, who invited us to visit the Kondae area, gave us a bunch of tips, and met up with us to show us around. Nathan plays in the band Tierpark and is a co-founder and writer for the music website…
After waiting for two weeks for a day when it wasn’t raining I finally made it out again, but even so the sky over Guui was overcast and it was questionable whether or not the rain would hold off long enough for me to explore the neighborhood. I left Exit 1 and headed in the…
I got to Sangwangsimni mid-morning on a late June day. It was hot, just starting to hint at the sweltering weather of Seoul’s worst months, but that didn’t seem to be stopping anyone from getting out to get their business done. I came out Exit 4, where the traffic lights above the road, Wangsimni-ro (왕십리로),…
Formerly Seongnae Station (성내역), Jamsillaru is penned into a small corner between Jamsil Station, Mongchontoseong Station, and the Han River and is essentially just a point of access for the surrounding apartment complexes. Unlike most stations, Jamsillaru isn’t situated on an intersection; instead, all four exits emerge onto a small plaza where a hundred or…
Unusually for this project, my initial visit to Sillim was made on a Tuesday morning, and I was a bit surprised at just how much activity there was around the station. A lot of people out and about, and outside Exit 2 a soundtrack of loud K-pop streamed from speakers mounted on light poles in…
Seoul Sub→urban 