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Tag Archives: Yeongdeungpo-gu

Saetgang Station (샛강역) Line 9 – Station #916

  The word saetgang (샛강) is one of those uber-specific words, like schadenfreude or 木漏れ日 (komorebi) (the Japanese term for the dappling effect of sunlight filtering through trees), that makes you feel your own language is missing out.  It refers to a small channel or tributary in a river that separates an island from the…

February 8, 2015 in Line 9, Yeongdeungpo-gu.

Dangsan Station (당산역) Line 2 – Station #237, Line 9 – Station #913

I like Yeongdeungpo-gu.  It doesn’t have much charm, but it has more interesting and idiosyncratic spots than most people realize, or at least remember: the machine shops and art scene in Mullae, the Chinese neighborhood in Daerim, the parks and behemoth Yoido Full Gospel Church on Yeouido, Seonyudo’s industrial island oasis.  It’s also the (mostly)…

May 4, 2014 in Line 2, Line 9, Yeongdeungpo-gu.

Seonyudo Station (선유도역) Line 9 – Station #912

The star attraction at Seonyudo Station is the eponymous island, and to get to there I stepped out Exit 2, whereupon I was greeted by a rush of cicada song.  It was hot, but the humidity had broken, there was a breeze, and Yangpyeong-ro-22-gil (양평로22길) was a pleasant street, with a number of inviting cafes…

October 27, 2013 in Line 9, Yeongdeungpo-gu.

National Assembly Station (국회의사당역) Line 9 – Station #914

The prevailing ethos of Yeouido is that size matters.  There may not be a single one-story building on the entire island, and crossing some of the intersections have to qualify you for some sort of mileage rewards, but nowhere is this lopsided sense of scale more pronounced than on the island’s northwest tip, which is…

July 8, 2012 in Line 9, Yeongdeungpo-gu.

Yeouido Station (여의도역) Line 5 – Station #526, Line 9 – Station #915

Change is a constant theme on this blog, one that’s unavoidable when you talk about Seoul, but there are few places in the city that have undergone it quite so dramatically as Yeouido.  In the Joseon era, this island, whose name literally translates to ‘Useless,’ served as a sheep and goat pasture, and that’s pretty…

April 22, 2012 in Line 5, Line 9, Yeongdeungpo-gu.

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