Put on your varsity jacket and turn on your Vampire Weekend, we’re going back to school. Quite obviously, Hanyang University Station serves the campus of Hanyang University (한양대학교). Founded in 1939 as the Dong-A Engineering Institute, Hanyang is one of Korea’s top schools and home to its most prestigious engineering program. Exit 1 will drop…
Nakseongdae is a classical Chinese name meaning ‘the place where a star has fallen.’ It was here, in 948, that the great Goryeo General Kang Gam-chan (강감찬) was born. Depending on which version of the legend you prefer, either his mother gave birth to him after dreaming that a star had fallen to her breast…
Seoul National University of Education Station – 16 clumsy syllables that in Korean are so elegantly expressed in just three: kyo-dae-yeok. It’s a marvelous tongue it is. The area around Seoul National Uni…ah, the hell with that. The area around Kyo-dae? Eh, not so marvelous. Not bad, mind you, just very much what you’d expect…
Unfortunately, Angelique and I had to drag around some dead weight this past trip, as my visiting siblings, Joe and Maggie, insisted on tagging along. (See guys, I promised I’d mention you! ㅋㅋㅋ) Actually, the real misfortune was that they were joining us at one of the duller areas we’ve visited in a while, no…
Our first foray onto the Bundang Line brought us to Gaepo-dong Station on a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon. The Yangjae Stream runs just north of the station, so we decided to begin the tour by heading south on Samsung-ro (삼성로) into the neighborhood that the station serves. The walk south from Exit 6 was pleasant…
Seoul Sub→urban 