It always takes me a while to get my bearings when I arrive at Express Bus Terminal Station, whether I’m there to catch a ride out of town or on my way to somewhere in the neighborhood. Three lines merge here, one bus terminal is two terminals, there’s a department store, two shopping malls, maybe…
This is a very bittersweet post for us here at Seoul Sub→urban. On the one hand, we’ve reached something of a milestone: Namtaeryeong marks the 100th station that we’ve visited for the project. When we began we had no idea where it would go or how long it would last, and the idea of covering…
Banpo is the sort of station that, unless you lived there, you’d never have any reason to go to. There is, to put it bluntly, virtually nothing here that would be of interest to anyone who doesn’t live in the neighborhood. The very small area that the station covers is filled almost exclusively with apartment…
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…
An anomaly in the Seoul subway system, the Line 4 station and Line 7 station in this neighborhood that marks the dividing line between Dongjak-gu and Seocho-gu actually bear different names, despite being a transfer point. The Line 4 station is called Chongshin University, while the connecting Line 7 station is Isu. I’m not privy…
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