We went to Sinsa at the invite of Steve Revere, editor of 10 Magazine, who was kind enough to take interest in our project and will be featuring Seoul sub→urban in 10’s upcoming Blog of the Month feature. To begin the stop we met up with Steve at 10’s office in Nonhyeon-dong: a red brick…
Originally called the Cargo Truck Terminal, Nambu Bus Terminal in Seocho-gu will be well familiar with anyone who’s used the metro to get to the Seoul Arts Center (예술의전당) complex at the foot of Umyeon Mountain (우면산). And we’ll get to that shortly (or, rather, Liz will) but first, a brief tour of the neighborhood.…
With no ancestral homes in Jeolla or Chungcheong-do to trek to for Seollal this past weekend, Liz and I made our very first trip to Eunpyeong-gu (은평구). Given the holiday, I half-expected it to be completely dead, and while it was quiet, there were enough stores open and people out and about that it still…
Tucked between Cheonhodae-ro (천호대로) and Cheonggyecheon (청계천) on the southwest side of Dapsimni Station is the little neighborhood of Yongdapdong (용답동). Before getting to the moderately well-known antique markets on the opposite side of the avenue, Liz and I decided to pop in to this area for a look-see. It was pleasantly busy on a…
Exit 1 at Namseong Station put us on Sadang-ro (사당로), which we quickly turned off of to the south to take a look at Sadang Market (사당시장). It wasn’t really a proper market in the conventional sense, more simply an area with a higher than average concentration of small grocers and the like set up…
Seoul Sub→urban 