Both Line 8 and the Bundang line connect into Seoul at the outer circle line, and both serve districts/wards on the South-Eastern edges of the Seoul metropolitian area. Not completely built up at their respective ends (although far more built up than the famed end of the Incheon line), these lines have considerably less daytime traffic than [...]

Urban rail lines in the Seoul Metro area are run by various corporations or government entities. Today I rode two line segments operated by Korail, the railway company that runs South Korea’s national rail network, including KTX bullet trains. Because of their integration with national and regional rail, the Korail lines often run along urban [...]

I hopped aboard the express Airport Railroad train out to Seoul’s Gimpo International and took the local Line 9 back into Seoul. This is another one of the newer lines and is not yet finished, it looks like 5-7 more stations are planned and so for now it stops in a slightly strange place, though, [...]

Day 6 took me clear across the city, covering about 50 stations from the northeast to the south, ending just south of the massive Han River around sunset time. Perfect timing for me to witness thousands of bicyclists on their afternoon commute, and to take in a rather amazing sunset at the Observatory/Cafe Nodeul on [...]

Finished off the rest of lines 5 and 3 in a loop that took me out to the eastern side of Seoul near the Olympic Park grounds. I didn’t have time to explore this stop today as I had dinner with artist friend Jeen Yong Bin. I was afraid if I had explored, that I [...]

Covered a whole mess of lines today including many partial lines I had left in order to make some semblance of a loop out to the Incheon Line. Incheon, although one of the older port areas, is relatively new in terms of transit oriented urban development. So new, in fact, that the last stop on [...]

Today’s loop took me out to some smaller outlying towns about an hour outside of Seoul’s city center. The 3 line is in pretty solid city before it tunnels under a mountain, on the other side of which is mostly farmland, with stops at small pockets of high-density residential towers. A strange juxtaposition for me but supposedly [...]

This past Sunday, I rode Seoul Metro’s Line 2 (The Outer Loop) as a test run, less people than weekdays so it was a good way to experiment a bit and figure things out. I’ll be putting photos up later this week as soon as I figure out a way to grid them up properly. [...]