Seoul Sub→urban would like to thank Meagan Mastriani for inviting us to and showing me around her work neighborhood of Wangsimni. Meagan writes about food, mostly, and you can check out her take on the local dining scene at her column, Savoring Seoul, in the online magazine Honest Cooking. I met Meagan on a recent…
Nakseongdae is a classical Chinese name meaning ‘the place where a star has fallen.’ It was here, in 948, that the great Goryeo General Kang Gam-chan (강감찬) was born. Depending on which version of the legend you prefer, either his mother gave birth to him after dreaming that a star had fallen to her breast…
This project started with the goal of answering, at least partially, the question of What’s up there? that inevitably arises while riding the subway, and Yeongdeungpo-gu Office was always one of the most What’s up there? stations for me, as my first year in Seoul I lived in Gangseo-gu, near Songjeong Station, and transferred here…
A recurring theme that’s come up here (and we’re hardly the first ones to point this out) is the juxtaposition between old Seoul and new Seoul – the way the city’s laser beam quick development resulted in modern developments and lifestyles existing side by side with those a half-century old. I’ve remarked on this at…
Seoul National University of Education Station – 16 clumsy syllables that in Korean are so elegantly expressed in just three: kyo-dae-yeok. It’s a marvelous tongue it is. The area around Seoul National Uni…ah, the hell with that. The area around Kyo-dae? Eh, not so marvelous. Not bad, mind you, just very much what you’d expect…
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