On the north side of Heogi Station, maeul buses were pulling up and people in suits and fancy dresses were piling out, heading to the several wedding halls nearby.  Most of them crossed through the station to Exit 2, where, past a row of pojangmachas, guys in red jackets waved batons to direct cars out of a buffet parking garage.  Other invitees made their way into a particularly grotesque wedd ...

The heavy canopy of Bukbu Expressway (북부간선도로) curved along overhead, while underneath, the Hwarang-ro (화랑로) sidewalks were coated in a thick layer of ice thanks to a slurry-like snow that thousands of footsteps had pounded into an undulating rink, leaving everyone on this afternoon shuffling along like wary geriatrics.

The neighborhood map at Ujangsan Station says that Ujangsan Park (우장산공원) is accessible via Exit 1, but this is deceptive.  I went out that way, past old women selling green onions and chestnuts on the sidewalk, and followed the road as it ran past apartment complexes.  It wasn’t going anywhere, or more specifically it was going straight to Balsan Station, where I’d just come from, ...

If you’re not aware of it yet, there’s an excellent new show on Arirang called Semipermanent.  Hosted by Erik Moynihan and Tiffany Needham, the show profiles some of Seoul’s most interesting expats to see how they live, work, and play in the city.  One of those most interesting expats is our own Meagan Mastriani, who popped up on the show’s ‘Live to Eat’ epis ...

[ Hello! Before Charlie commences the 101st station here, I wanted to introduce myself—I'm Meagan, the newest member of the Seoul Sub→urban team. I'll be picking up where Liz left off as photographer (though certainly not replacing her, as nobody could). I was a fan and follower of this project long before I became a part of it, so I'm honored and humbled to make my first post here. I hope yo ...

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 a hundred of Seoul’s countless neighborhoods seemed far off, if not impossible.  To have reac ...

Unusually for this project, my initial visit to Sillim was made on a Tuesday morning, and I was a bit surprised at just how much activity there was around the station. A lot of people out and about, and outside Exit 2 a soundtrack of loud K-pop streamed from speakers mounted on light poles in front of the Podo ‘Style Collection Mall.’ Outside the mall’s entrance, wheeled tables with boxes ...

If you look over at the sidebar you might notice a new section, Awards and Acknowledgements, below the links to our coverage in the media.  We’ve recently been recognized for our work here by a couple of websites that grant themselves the power to Recognize Websites and Give Out Digital Badges.  So, we’ve put them up.