Seoul Village

If you're a frequent flyer on my Korean errlines, you've had your fill of rants about recurring blunders in urban planning, the pers...

In case you missed it, three new projects of GTX (Great Train eXpress) lines were announced earlier this year. Since we're getting close...

I'd like to look back to a few urbanistic topics that animated this hot Summer in the city, but let me start with this most recent trip ...

From his Hongseong birthplace, LEE Ungno enjoyed a view on two mountains he revered: he nicknamed the tall and rocky one 'father', ...

So Pope Francis landed in South Korea, welcomed by the traditional gun salute from the North... Stalin asked 'The Pope! How many divi...

"Last cig", a shot I took a couple of years ago in Nowon-gu Last year I was saddened by statistics showing that more and mor...

Collateral damage of the Cheonan tragedy : Korea postponed the hand over of operational control of its military affairs from US to homegrown...

You've seen the banners downtown, and on the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism : between May 25 and 28, 2010, Seoul hosts the 2nd...

Woke up at five this morning. To the familiar sound of the surf. Water almost reached the top of the concrete pier, at the feet of the woode...

Back to Seosan Dongbu Market. After the seafood restaurant* and the visit to the fish market, I'm longing for a variety of tastes. As we...

Ideally located at the center of the almost peninsula of Northwestern Chungcheongnam-do, Seosan hosts a fairly large and very lively market ...

For most observers, the future of Korea's next capital, Sejong Special Autonomous City, has never looked bright. And when LEE Myung-bak ...