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…
We weren’t about to trek all the way out to far southeast Seoul without getting our money’s worth, so following our exploration of the area around Geoyeo Station (거여역) we went a bit further east, to the last stop on the purple line’s south spur. A few weeks ago we were surprised to find a…
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…
Built to house a number of the facilities that were constructed for the 1988 Summer Olympics, Olympic Park is serviced by three metro stations: Gangdong-gu Office (강동구청역) in the north, Mongchontoseong (몽촌토성역) in the west, and the station we most recently visited, Olympic Park (올림픽공원역) in the east. Besides hosting a number of Olympic facilities,…
Most professional athletic stadiums in the U.S. — the kind I grew up with on humid Midwestern summer days — stand removed from the city, looming where freeway exits truncate, surrounded by acres of asphalt parking lots. Sprawl and the endless parking lots that accompany it are generally two of my least favorite characteristics of life in…
Seoul Sub→urban 