To give you an accurate idea of what there is to see and do around Gubanpo Station, suffice to say that I knocked this post out on my lunch break. Rather odd in that all three of its exits come out on the same side of the six-lane Sinbanpo-ro (신반포로), the station dropped us off…
We weren’t about to trek all the way out to far southeast Seoul without getting our money’s worth, so following our exploration of the area around Geoyeo Station (거여역) we went a bit further east, to the last stop on the purple line’s south spur. A few weeks ago we were surprised to find a…
I completely spaced on this last week when the first one aired, but I’m now doing a regular guest segment on TBS eFM’s ‘Soul of Asia‘ program, hosted by John Lee. The segment, called ‘My Secret Soul,’ will revisit one of the neighborhoods we’ve explored in the course of this project, and John and I…
We’re happy to announce that Seoul Sub→urban has teamed up with HiExpat.com, so now — in addition to Nanoomi and, of course, right here — you’ll be able to find our content on their wonderfully useful site under the Travel & Places tab in their Latest Expat Blogs section. And speaking of HiExpat, they’re holding…
For our most recent trip we hoofed it about as far as we could hoof it from our respective neighborhoods, to the far southeastern reaches of the city, beyond the Seoul Ring Expressway (서울외곽순환고속도로) even, to Geoyeo Station. The holiday season had begun to permeate even this corner of the city, and several of the…
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