Because the western side of the number 5 line crosses the Han River by a deep tunnel and not a bridge, Yeouinaru Station, at 27.5 meters below sea level, is the lowest subway station in Korea. Liz and I visited with our friend Casey this past Saturday, and the area was absolutely buzzing with people…
Originally called the Cargo Truck Terminal, Nambu Bus Terminal in Seocho-gu will be well familiar with anyone who’s used the metro to get to the Seoul Arts Center (예술의전당) complex at the foot of Umyeon Mountain (우면산). And we’ll get to that shortly (or, rather, Liz will) but first, a brief tour of the neighborhood.…
With no ancestral homes in Jeolla or Chungcheong-do to trek to for Seollal this past weekend, Liz and I made our very first trip to Eunpyeong-gu (은평구). Given the holiday, I half-expected it to be completely dead, and while it was quiet, there were enough stores open and people out and about that it still…
Exit 1 at Namseong Station put us on Sadang-ro (사당로), which we quickly turned off of to the south to take a look at Sadang Market (사당시장). It wasn’t really a proper market in the conventional sense, more simply an area with a higher than average concentration of small grocers and the like set up…
Seoul Sub→urban 