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Glitter and gold fill the streets of the Jongno district
It would be hard to find any other street in Korea more glittering than the streets of Jongno, in central Seoul, stretching from Tapgol Park to Jongmyo Park. Along that stretch of the bustling main artery downtown that is Jongno, visitors are trea…
Oct 06,2008
Get your spooks on Toy Street
If you are enough of a Halloween maniac to already be preparing for the ghoulish holiday, a visit to a narrow street near the Dongdaemun subway station in central Seoul could be of haunting significance. In four stores specializing in party suppli…
Sept 29,2008
Past textbook haven specializes to survive
Clashing images of Seoul’s past and present couldn’t be any more striking than Cheonggye-6-ga. Tiny stores selling dusty old books crowd the street and the newly renovated Cheonggye Stream runs below, serene and well tended. Cheonggye-6-ga is Se…
Sept 22,2008
What every bride needs: Dress St.
A group of people sits on a couch awaiting the opening of a gold-colored curtain. A few minutes later, the curtain parts to reveal a woman in her mid-20s, wearing an ivory-colored bridal gown embroidered with strings of beads. On stage, as the sp…
Sept 16,2008
Plains turn into a furniture mecca
There was a time when the nation’s plushest area of Gangnam, or southern Seoul, was little more than an expanse of plains overgrown with reeds and flowers. With Gangnam evolving into Korea’s trend-setting epicenter during the past three decades,…
Sept 08,2008
A market where agriculture still rules the day
Huge green gloves fastened to sticks soar high to the mantra-like utterances of the middle-aged man standing on the platform. His rhythmic gibberish sounds like a code that’s impossible to crack, except to the 20 or so bidders gathered next to st…
Sept 01,2008
Fall flowers in fashion at the Yangjae Market
Signaling that autumn is just around the corner, yellow, dark red and purple chrysanthemums in profusion dominate the stands of fresh cut flower retailers at the Yangjae Flower Market Center in Seocho District, southern Seoul. “Now that fall is ju…
Aug 25,2008
Tool complex in Guro is a Mr. Fix It paradise
Just across from Guro Station are lines of red brick buildings no more than three stories high. Within them are shops piled high with hardware ranging from the tiniest nuts, bolts, cutting knives and power drills to massive industrial water pumps, gr…
Aug 18,2008
Bikers’ dream roars along in Seoul
On a sultry afternoon last week, Bae Eun-hee, 25, stroked the seat of an emerald green motor scooter in front of a motorcycle shop in Toegyero, Seoul. “I was thinking of buying a car this year but decided to settle for a scooter instead because o…
Aug 11,2008
Yongsan Market offers a sea of digital gadgets
Like any other major train station in Seoul, Yongsan Station is always packed with thousands of travelers. But often at Yongsan large streams of people often head in one direction: not to the train platforms but to cross “Gureum Bridge,” a skybri…
Aug 04,2008
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