Well, hell…I just realized this post has been sitting in draft, unpublished, for five years.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…
Gayang is a neighborhood that can pretty succinctly be summed up by saying this: It’s a good place to raise a family. You know this neighborhood. Maybe you even live here. It’s a pretty new part of town. The apartment towers and commercial buildings are clean, tidy, probably less than a couple decades old. On…
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…
When one considers the geography of Seoul, it’s her mountains that seem to define her: the noble peaks of Bukhan serving as a backdrop to the city’s seats of power – Gyeongbokgung and the Blue House; sacred Inwang watching over the old city’s spirit from the west; Namsan, which once marked the city’s southern limits…
(Editor’s Note: Photos by Merissa Quek.) The cover of the Gwangjin-gu (Slogan: A City of elegance, livable Gwangjin) promotional booklet that the kind docent at the Achasan Goguryeo History Musuem handed to me shows an aerial shot of the district, mostly a confetti smattering of densely packed apartment rooftops, broken by the occasional vertical tower. …
Seoul Sub→urban 