It begins the moment you step off the subway. There, on the platform, a man calls out to passengers, hawking the belts laid out in compartmentalized boxes at his feet. Before you exit the station you’ll pass more people doing the same – with bags, with clothes, with battery-operated toys that flash and clatter –…
At first glance, Yangjae might not seem like an obvious choice for getting out and experiencing the beautiful weather that May brings to Seoul. And it’s true: the neighborhood immediately around the station would never be mistaken for the city’s most charismatic, its wide avenues and utilitarian office towers not leaving room for much charm. …
I have to break Jangji up into two not-quite-symmetrical parts, as the east and west sides of the station bear almost no relation to each other. East There isn’t a whole lot of interest around here, most of the area around Exits 1 and 2 being taken up by a forest of apartment towers called…
This was a stop about which I was finding it difficult to say much, especially in light of the fact that I visited it immediately after Saejeol, and the neighborhoods around both are, for all intents and purposes, virtually identical. The Bulgwang Stream (불광천), Exit 1 or 2, flows alongside the main street here as…
The area around Saejeol Station looks pretty similar to that around Eungam, a stop we visited a while back, which shouldn’t come as any surprise since it’s just one stop down the six line. You come out alongside the Bulgwang Stream on a six-lane road lined with buildings housing businesses in their first floors and…
Seoul Sub→urban 