Seoul Hero

The other day at Hapjeong Station (not actually where the photograph was taken), I was waiting for the train. People were neatly lined up. Suddenly, just when the train pulled in, a couple of outrageously obnoxious middle or high school girls with a bad case of makeup overkill rushed between the lines, budging [...]

I always pay when I take the subway, but quite literally everyday I see people who don’t. In all my two years of daily commuting on the subway, daily observing many people who exit the turnstiles without paying, either by going over or under, I have only ever seen two people taken to task [...]

One of the things that I was unable to document in the last little while, due to my busy-ness with the Commonwealth scholarship application, was the delightful visit I had with my good friends from my graduate school days, Thomas & Insoon! Both are highly intelligent, extremely kind, and hilariously witty characters! It [...]

Yesterday afternoon, as I was sitting on the subway and talking to my friend Wyatt on my cellphone, I was flashed, very deliberately, by a woman sitting across from me. Like the seventy-something who flashed me in the Mangwon marketplace one afternoon, she was wearing white underwear. This woman looked to be around [...]

Today’s commute to work was both perfect and exhilarating. I went down the stairs in the Hapjeong station as I always do, and passed by the #2 tracks, as one must, in order to get to the #6. As I was about a third of the way to the end where the escalators [...]

Not an adventure, really, despite the post tag. Nevertheless, I thought that my first trip on the Yellow Line, the Bundang line, should not go unrecorded. My ride on that train began where it intersects with the Green Line, the #2, and ended two stops later. Some time later, I retraced [...]

Some people like to show off or otherwise attract attention to themselves. Today on the subway, a middle aged lady came and sat down beside me, while speaking loudly, like the older men do here, into her phone. She was one of those people who likes to wear a lot of really heavy [...]