I arrived at Yongmasan Station, named for the nearby mountain, on a bright, crisp January day, and coming out of Exit 2 the first thing I noticed was how hilly the neighborhood was. Apartment towers to the east sat up on bluffs, and the street just in front of the exit dipped down into a…
Banpo is the sort of station that, unless you lived there, you’d never have any reason to go to. There is, to put it bluntly, virtually nothing here that would be of interest to anyone who doesn’t live in the neighborhood. The very small area that the station covers is filled almost exclusively with apartment…
Back to where it all began. Well, almost. We started this project nearly two years ago one stop away, at Nonhyeon Station (논현역), and the trip to Hakdong brought some familiar sights with it. Foremost among these is Nonhyeon Furniture Street (논현가구거리), which runs along Hakdong-ro (학동로) between the Line 7 stations, and if you’re…
An anomaly in the Seoul subway system, the Line 4 station and Line 7 station in this neighborhood that marks the dividing line between Dongjak-gu and Seocho-gu actually bear different names, despite being a transfer point. The Line 4 station is called Chongshin University, while the connecting Line 7 station is Isu. I’m not privy…
After the last couple stations proved to be rather on the dull side it was nice to be out around Namguro which, while not a showstopper, at least provided an interesting neighborhood with some interesting sights. Exit 3 dropped me off on the west side of Gurodong-gil (구로동길) across from a row of seven hostess…
Seoul Sub→urban 