We’re happy to announce that now, not only can you read Seoul Sub→urban, once again you can listen to it! Tune in to Weekend Edition with Walter Foreman on TBS eFM 101.3 at 10 a.m. every Sunday, and right after the intro you can catch our segment, titled, appropriately enough, Seoul Sub→urban. We’ll be talking about the areas around various…
A short ways from Sinchon Rotary, Daeheung Station serves Sogang University (서강대학교) and the surrounding neighborhood. One of Korea’s most highly-esteemed universities, Sogang is a small Jesuit college, its undergraduate student population standing at around 11,000. Sogang’s front gate is about a ten-minute walk up Baekbeom-ro (백범로) from Exit 1. Because I arrived there just…
Aeogae sits just south of Ahyeon and Chungjeongno, north of Gongdeok, east of Ewha, and about a kilometer west of Seoul Station, and despite being surrounded by these fairly popular and busy neighborhoods, Aeogae had always been one of those blank spots for me, a spot on the map about which I had no idea. …
Hidden among the soaring glass and steel towers of southeastern Seoul is a wormhole, a portal to a land that physically exists within the Songpa-gu dimensions of time and space but which could seemingly secede and declare a sovereign one block corporation-state at will. Behold, ladies and gentlemen, the People’s Republic of Lotte. You don’t…
If there’s one station that can be said to be the center of Seoul’s subway system, the nexus from which everything expands and to which it returns, it’s Jongno-3-ga. One of the system’s oldest stations, it’s also one of the few that connect more than two lines, and it sits right in the heart of…
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