Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape Podcast
1) A Wrap-Up: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
With the end of Koreascape comes the end of Koreascape's Seoul urbanism segment, and so we look back at all we've covered over the past two years. We also ask what the future holds for some of our pas...Show More
2) Sewoon Sangga, the 1960s Megastructure Reborn: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
This month we explore Sewoon Sangga, the concrete megastructure that has survived half a century of change in Seoul and is now the subject of a revitalization effort like no other. Originally commissi...Show More
3) Seeing Seoul's Subway as It Really Is: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
We talk to Nikola Medimorec, co creator-with Andy Tebay of Kojects, an English-language site covering all manner of urban developments in Korea, with a focus on transport and public infrastructure. Ni...Show More
Seeing Seoul's Subway as It Really Is: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
23:44 | Aug 15th, 2018
4) Cyberpunk Seoul: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
This month we talk about Seoul's chances of becoming the next great cyberpunk city, following the likes of the future Los Angeles imagined in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Chiba City imagined in Willia...Show More
5) Four Summer Reads about Seoul, in English and Korean: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
This month, as summer begins, we discuss four recommended books about Seoul, three in English and one in Korean: Janghee Lee's “Seoul's Historic Walks in Sketches,” Jieheerah Yun's "Globalizing Seoul:...Show More
6) The Gyeongui Line Forest Park: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
This month we walk the Gyeongui Line Forest Park, which cuts across four miles of Seoul on part of the path of the Gyeongui Line train, which back in the colonial period ran all the way to Manchuria. ...Show More
7) What Seoul and Los Angeles Can Learn from Each Other: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
Having just been to Los Angeles for the first time in the two years since I moved from there to Seoul, I ask what these ever-changing cities can learn from one another. How much does Los Angeles remai...Show More
8) Six Distinctive Urban Characteristics of Seoul: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
With Kurt on vacation, I talk to Na Seung-yeon about six distinctive characteristics of Seoul’s urban space as a whole, including its high-rise apartment complexes; its short-hop “village buses”; its ...Show More
9) The Driverless, Ad-Free, "Cultural" Ui-Sinseol Line: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
We ride the brand new Ui-Sinseol Light Rapid Transit (or Ui LRT), Korea’s very first driverless light-rail subway. Running from the center of the city out to Bukhansan on its northeastern edge, the li...Show More
10) Seoul's development seen through TV commercials: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape
Building on a piece I wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books Korea Blog, we talk about the development of Seoul as you can see it over sixty years of television commercials. These spots advertise t...Show More