Seoul Sub→urban is teaming up with ExploreMetro, a cool app that puts subway maps, timetables, and route planners for some of Asia’s biggest cities’ metro systems right on your iPhone. July 25th to 31st will be Seoul Week on ExploreMetro, featuring one post from us on the ExploreMetro blog each day, and to celebrate we’re…
What’s most striking about the area around Bangi Station is how green it is, at least by Seoul standards. Nearly every street in the neighborhood is tree-lined, numerous walls are covered with ivy, and despite the presence of some very large roads there’s far less of the concrete jungle feeling you get in other parts…
We’re happy to announce that Seoul Sub→urban is the subject of a small profile in this month’s issue of The Traveller magazine. A few weeks ago the two of us met up with the lovely 류진 to be interviewed and do a photo shoot around Gwanghwamun, and if you can read Korean we hope you’ll pick up…
One of the first things you’ll probably notice when you exit Bulgwang Station is that the air is just a little bit more breathable here than in other parts of Seoul, and being so close to the edge of the city and to the mountains that makes sense. The most dominating feature of the neighborhood…
It begins the moment you step off the subway. There, on the platform, a man calls out to passengers, hawking the belts laid out in compartmentalized boxes at his feet. Before you exit the station you’ll pass more people doing the same – with bags, with clothes, with battery-operated toys that flash and clatter –…
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