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…
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…
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 