Almost any time you step onto the Korea University (고려대학교) campus, one of the sights you’re bound to see is large groups of high school students being led around by their teachers or KU student docents. They’re there to get a taste of the university life and, maybe more to the point, a bit of…
For the most part, Hwarangdae is a rather bland part of town. It’s pretty much as middle-class as you can get, the better part of the neighborhood being a shuffle of schools, churches, and businesses, many of them chain stores, that provide for the residents of the several apartment tower complexes both north and south…
A man returns to the place an old lover left him, his tears mixing with the rain, but finds nothing more than the memories he came with. Ain’t that just it how it goes. That fateful place was Samgakji, and the sad story was sung by Bae Ho (배호) in ‘돌아가는 삼각지,’ one of Korea’s…
Let’s begin with noodles. Just outside Exit 1, on the corner of Gongdaecheon-gil (공대천길), is a sign for Gongneung-dong Noodle Street (공릉동 국수 거리). We often comment on this blog about how much the city changes – the buildings that disappear and are replaced, the neighborhoods that are gentrified – but one change I don’t…
The last stop on Line 6, Bonghwasan Station sits right alongside the Northern Trunk Road (북부간선도로) and there’s a transfer parking lot outside where commuters from Namyangju and Guri can drop their cars before jumping on a train for their jobs in the city. The sprawling Korean Military School (육군사관학교) lies just north of the…
Seoul Sub→urban 