Well, hell…I just realized this post has been sitting in draft, unpublished, for five years. I guess we’ll put it up. One of my very first nights in Seoul, way back in the early days after stepping off my first Chicago – Incheon flight, was spent in the alleys of Apgujeong’s Rodeo Street, cluelessly tagging…
Wind blustered down the wide, straight avenues between office towers, flapping the ties of the men in business suits as they made their way back to their desks, coffee cups in hand. Their routes took them past makeup shops and restaurants, past a new tea café where someone wearing a fuzzy black ball on their…
Special thanks to Jordan Redmond for inviting us to Hanti and showing us around his neighborhood. Jordan writes a food blog about his neighborhood, and to find out what’s good in the area we suggest you visit him at Daechi Dining. There were ten different schools of one type or another listed on Hanti Station’s…
Between 1964 and 1989 the German chronobiologist Rütger Wever conducted a series of experiments in an underground bunker in Andechs, Germany, in which over 400 test subjects were deprived of all external time cues – variations in light, temperature, electromagnetic fields – anything that might signal to them what time of day it was or how…
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…
Seoul Sub→urban 