Despite sitting near the heart of downtown, the area around Euljiro-4-ga Station remains off the radar for most. Surrounded by Jongno, Myeongdong, and Dongdaemun, it suffers a bit from Bermuda Triangle syndrome, disappearing amid the attractions of its more well-known neighbors. But there are plenty of reasons to get off the subway here and explore,…
Kkachisan, or Magpie Mountain, station sits at the tail end of the two line’s western spur, where it intersects with the five, and opens onto a pretty ordinary neighborhood. Gangseo-ro (강서로), the area’s main drag, is home to your typical collection of shops and restaurants that you could find in just about any middle-class district…
To give you an accurate idea of what there is to see and do around Gubanpo Station, suffice to say that I knocked this post out on my lunch break. Rather odd in that all three of its exits come out on the same side of the six-lane Sinbanpo-ro (신반포로), the station dropped us off…
For our most recent trip we hoofed it about as far as we could hoof it from our respective neighborhoods, to the far southeastern reaches of the city, beyond the Seoul Ring Expressway (서울외곽순환고속도로) even, to Geoyeo Station. The holiday season had begun to permeate even this corner of the city, and several of the…
A clutch of very modern steel and glass towers sits just outside Exit 2 of Doksan Station, and another structure called The Rubens (Art? Sandwiches? Is there a difference?) was in the process of being erected across the street. Just a block away, though, these mostly give way to older three and four-story office buildings,…
Seoul Sub→urban 