There’s nothing in Sinjeong that could, in and of itself, be considered particularly intriguing, but as I walked around I found it rather interesting how the area served as a transition between the lower income areas to the west and the relatively affluent Mokdong neighborhood to the east. I started by making a U-turn out…
Omokgyo is nice. I can’t think of another part of Seoul we’ve visited that’s more aptly described by that adjective, with its satisfied, bourgeois, slightly anodyne tones. With its upper middle to upper class housing, ample parkland, abundance of shopping, and well kempt streets, it struck me as what a friendly urban planner might come…
I visited Deungchon the day after Seoul’s first snowfall, and despite the cold temperatures the day was brilliant. Even as my breath fogged up my glasses for fleeting half-seconds, the sun was glinting off the ice and snow, melting what was on roofs and causing water to drip off eaves onto the sidewalk below. This…
Mokdong this week and, again, not too terribly much to report back on for the aimlessly wandering Seoulite. A fairly well-known neighborhood in Seoul expat circles due to its relative affluence and corresponding preponderance of hagwons and the foreign teachers that go with them, it nevertheless felt – to us at least – a bit…
Seoul Sub→urban 