Hoegi Station (회기역) Line 1 – Station # 123, Jungang Line – Station # K118
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 ofpojangmachas, guys in red jackets waved batons to direct cars out of a buffet parking garage. Other invitees made their way into a particularly grotesque wedding hall where golden onion domes were paired with conical tower roofs dotted in square specks of color and capped with metal pennants, like a 64-bit version of a castle made real.
I walked to the end of the street, past a trio of girls singing along with the K-pop song coming out of one of their phones, and then hung a right onto Mang-u-ro (망우로), walking past a crafts shop where several chunks of wood had been carved into penis shapes and put in the window display. In front of other shops, their keepers swept yellow ginkgo leaves off the sidewalk.
I walked down the street for a bit before doubling back and heading east, to Jungnang Bridge (중랑교) and the Jungnang Stream (중랑천). Partway across the bridge a small set of stairs led down to the water. There’s not much here, and the Jungnang, at least here, is barren compared to other streams in the capital. The watercourse flows briskly, but there’s little separating it from the adjacent highway and little in the way of amenities. Bike paths flank either side, and a short ways to the north is an inline skating oval, its lanes faded out, but the extent of facilities was a snack stall under the bridge where a woman sold ramen, chips, and beer to resting bicyclists.
Also on the south side of the station, about equidistant from Hoegi and Cheongnyangni Stations, is the University of Seoul (서울시립대학교), whose test for admissions may simply be finding the place. Coming from the station, at the corner of Mang-u-ro-21-gil (망우로21길) and Mang-u-ro, cross the street, turn right, and take Mang-u-ro-16-gil (망우로16길), the diagonal street leading past several small restaurants. At the small three-way intersection, next to a shop called Beauty Avenue, turn left (still Mang-u-ro-16-gil). Walk to the end, where you’ll come up to a school. Turn right, then an immediate left onto Mang-u-ro-18-ra-gil (망우로18라길). Follow it uphill and around to the right. At its end, the rear gate to the university is on your left. Alternatively, after turning left at Beauty Avenue, turn right at Café Brown and Cocopop boutique. Naver maps tells me this is Mang-u-ro-18-ga-gil (망우로18가길). Follow this for a while until you see 한우 장터 and the bakery케익 이벤트 (Cake Event), where you should turn left, onto Mang-u-ro-18-na-gil (망우로18나길), before taking your first right, putting you back on Mang-u-ro-18-ga-gil. Take that straight up to the rear gate.
Got that? Didn’t think so.
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 ofpojangmachas, guys in red jackets waved batons to direct cars out of a buffet parking garage. Other invitees made their way into a particularly grotesque wedding hall where golden onion domes were paired with conical tower roofs dotted in square specks of color and capped with metal pennants, like a 64-bit version of a castle made real.
I walked to the end of the street, past a trio of girls singing along with the K-pop song coming out of one of their phones, and then hung a right onto Mang-u-ro (망우로), walking past a crafts shop where several chunks of wood had been carved into penis shapes and put in the window display. In front of other shops, their keepers swept yellow ginkgo leaves off the sidewalk.
I walked down the street for a bit before doubling back and heading east, to Jungnang Bridge (중랑교) and the Jungnang Stream (중랑천). Partway across the bridge a small set of stairs led down to the water. There’s not much here, and the Jungnang, at least here, is barren compared to other streams in the capital. The watercourse flows briskly, but there’s little separating it from the adjacent highway and little in the way of amenities. Bike paths flank either side, and a short ways to the north is an inline skating oval, its lanes faded out, but the extent of facilities was a snack stall under the bridge where a woman sold ramen, chips, and beer to resting bicyclists.
Also on the south side of the station, about equidistant from Hoegi and Cheongnyangni Stations, is the University of Seoul (서울시립대학교), whose test for admissions may simply be finding the place. Coming from the station, at the corner of Mang-u-ro-21-gil (망우로21길) and Mang-u-ro, cross the street, turn right, and take Mang-u-ro-16-gil (망우로16길), the diagonal street leading past several small restaurants. At the small three-way intersection, next to a shop called Beauty Avenue, turn left (still Mang-u-ro-16-gil). Walk to the end, where you’ll come up to a school. Turn right, then an immediate left onto Mang-u-ro-18-ra-gil (망우로18라길). Follow it uphill and around to the right. At its end, the rear gate to the university is on your left. Alternatively, after turning left at Beauty Avenue, turn right at Café Brown and Cocopop boutique. Naver maps tells me this is Mang-u-ro-18-ga-gil (망우로18가길). Follow this for a while until you see 한우 장터 and the bakery케익 이벤트 (Cake Event), where you should turn left, onto Mang-u-ro-18-na-gil (망우로18나길), before taking your first right, putting you back on Mang-u-ro-18-ga-gil. Take that straight up to the rear gate.
Got that? Didn’t think so.
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