The prevailing ethos of Yeouido is that size matters. There may not be a single one-story building on the entire island, and crossing some of the intersections have to qualify you for some sort of mileage rewards, but nowhere is this lopsided sense of scale more pronounced than on the island’s northwest tip, which is…
In the past few weeks, we’ve been revisiting past stations; Noksapyeong, Sindang, Hansung University Station to name a few. We traipsed around to interview an aging ajjumma in a vegetable market, we ate ‘Monster’ cupcakes (only in the name of research for the book, I assure you), gave a blacksmith a tiny English lesson, and…
As those of you who regularly follow the blog have no doubt noticed, we’ve been pretty lax about posting recently. Sorry about that, but we have a pretty good reason. In what’s probably the most exciting development of this project to date, the two of us have signed a deal with Seoul Selection to produce…
For several kilometers on the south side of the river, Line 2 jumps aboveground and traces the district borders between Yeongdeungpo-, Guro-, Dongjak-, and Gwanak-gus, before burrowing back down and continuing to the tonier eastern districts. While it’s in view, the line runs through Sindaebang Station, perched on its platform above the Dorim Stream (도림천). …
The further east you go along the Cheonggye Stream (청계천) the more the engineering of its western end gets stripped away and the more you’re able to step into its past. The process culminates in the Cheong Gye Cheon Museum (청계천문화관) and Cheonggye Stream Shack (청계천 판잣집), close to where the stream begins its southerly…
Seoul Sub→urban 