Seoul Sub→urban would like to thank Meagan Mastriani for inviting us to and showing me around her work neighborhood of Wangsimni. Meagan writes about food, mostly, and you can check out her take on the local dining scene at her column, Savoring Seoul, in the online magazine Honest Cooking. I met Meagan on a recent…
Inside Chungmuro Station, near the top of the main set of escalators, is a pair of walls covered in old photographs. The color photos of well-dressed people accepting awards may have faded and aged even more poorly than the black and white film stills around the corner, but this little shrine is the first sign…
Back to where it all began. Well, almost. We started this project nearly two years ago one stop away, at Nonhyeon Station (논현역), and the trip to Hakdong brought some familiar sights with it. Foremost among these is Nonhyeon Furniture Street (논현가구거리), which runs along Hakdong-ro (학동로) between the Line 7 stations, and if you’re…
This project started with the goal of answering, at least partially, the question of What’s up there? that inevitably arises while riding the subway, and Yeongdeungpo-gu Office was always one of the most What’s up there? stations for me, as my first year in Seoul I lived in Gangseo-gu, near Songjeong Station, and transferred here…
A recurring theme that’s come up here (and we’re hardly the first ones to point this out) is the juxtaposition between old Seoul and new Seoul – the way the city’s laser beam quick development resulted in modern developments and lifestyles existing side by side with those a half-century old. I’ve remarked on this at…
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