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Korea University Station (고려대역) Line 6 – Station #640
Almost any time you step onto the Korea University (고려대학교) campus, one of the sights you’re bound to see is large groups of high school students being led around by their teachers or KU student...
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Hwarangdae Station (화랑대역) Line 6 – Station #646
For the most part, Hwarangdae is a rather bland part of town. It’s pretty much as middle-class as you can get, the better part of the neighborhood being a shuffle of schools, churches, and...
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Samgakji Station (삼각지역) Line 4 – Station #428, Line 6 – Station #628
A man returns to the place an old lover left him, his tears mixing with the rain, but finds nothing more than the memories he came with. Ain’t that just it how it goes. That fateful place was...
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Taereung Station (태릉입구역) Line 6 – Station #645, Line 7 – Station #717
Let’s begin with noodles. Just outside Exit 1, on the corner of Gongdaecheon-gil (공대천길), is a sign for Gongneung-dong Noodle Street (공릉동 국수 거리). We often comment on this blog about how much the city...
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Bonghwasan Station (봉화산역) Line 6 – Station #647
The last stop on Line 6, Bonghwasan Station sits right alongside the Northern Trunk Road (북부간선도로) and there’s a transfer parking lot outside where commuters from Namyangju and Guri can drop their cars...
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Seokgye Station (석계역) Line 1 – Station #120, Line 6 – Station #644
Most subway stations in Seoul lie above or below a neat four-way intersection, leaving navigating the area a straightforward affair. Seokgye, however, has one line below ground and one above ground...
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Express Bus Terminal Station (고속터미널역) Line 3 – Station #339, Line 7 – Station...
It always takes me a while to get my bearings when I arrive at Express Bus Terminal Station, whether I’m there to catch a ride out of town or on my way to somewhere in the neighborhood. Three lines...
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Sangwolgok Station (상월곡역) Line 6 – Station #642
[A short hello! from me, the newest photographer of the Sub→urban team. This is the first post for which I photographed and I really hope you enjoy what you see here as much as you enjoyed looking at...
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Dongmyo Station (동묘앞역) Line 1 – Station #127, Line 6 – Station #636
Dongmyo Station takes its name from the nearby shrine, built to honor the Chinese general and deity Guan Yu (162-219). Near-ubiquitous on the other side of the Yellow Sea, shrines like these are rare...
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Hangangjin Station (한강진역) Line 6 – Station #631
Practically every neighborhood in Seoul undergoes changes on a weekly basis, some quickly, some slowly. Hangangjin is one of the quick ones, and is steadily turning itself into one of the trendiest,...
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Wolgok Station (월곡역) Line 6 – Station #641
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...
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Yeonsinnae Station (연신내역) Line 3 – Station #321, Line 6 – Station #614
Apologies for the delay in posting folks! This is entirely my (Liz’s) fault as I have skipped town, actually the whole country to go on what is already proving to be an epic, albeit rainy trip around...
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Yeokchon Station (역촌역) Line 6 – Station #611
I left Yeokchon Station from Exit 1, and one of the first things I passed was a café called Santa House, which, yes, had a small gift shop below the café selling all sorts of Santa figurines and...
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Sangsu Station (상수역) Line 6 – Station #623
And after five years? What then? The minute someone sits down at a keyboard, sets an f-stop, or turns over a fresh page in a sketchpad and tries to describe a place, it’s already a little bit gone....
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