Podcasts by Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFMs Koreascape
Every month, writer on cities and culture Colin Marshall joins Koreascape host Kurt Achin for an exploration of Seoul's urbanism: its architecture, its infrastructure, its public spaces, and other elements of the Korean metropolis' built environment.
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A Wrap-Up: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-10-09T05:52:13
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 ...
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Sewoon Sangga, the 1960s Megastructure Reborn: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-09-07T00:25:55
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 commi...
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Seeing Seoul's Subway as It Really Is: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-08-15T23:30:45
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....
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Cyberpunk Seoul: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-07-16T00:19:39
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 Wil...
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Four Summer Reads about Seoul, in English and Korean: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-06-14T00:11:22
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 Seo...
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The Gyeongui Line Forest Park: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-04-22T23:04:49
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 Manchuri...
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What Seoul and Los Angeles Can Learn from Each Other: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-03-27T00:30:16
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 re...
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Six Distinctive Urban Characteristics of Seoul: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2018-01-24T00:24:37
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”; i...
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The Driverless, Ad-Free, "Cultural" Ui-Sinseol Line: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-12-29T00:00:10
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...
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Seoul's development seen through TV commercials: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-11-13T23:41:34
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 advertis...
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The very first Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-10-19T04:46:46
We visit the very first Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, a months-spanning celebration and an exploration of how cities across the world have found innovative ways to use, preserve, and...
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Industry and Culture Grapple in Mullae-dong: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-09-12T22:41:46
We go just south of the Han River for a nighttime journey — punctuated by cats, coffee, ukulele riffs, tap dancing, and showers of sparks — through Mullae-dong. There an established generation of i...
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Seoul's Identity Crisis: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM’s Koreascape from 2017-08-11T00:19:16
We talk about my recent Guardian article on the branding of Seoul and the city’s efforts to resolve its ongoing identity crisis: hiring place-branding consultants, importing foreign architectural p...
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Yongma Land, the Amusement Park Time Forgot: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-07-11T23:54:30
We make the journey to Yongma Land, a long-abandoned neighborhood amusement park in eastern Seoul that has recently drawn such crowds as couples on dates, engagement photographers, Instagrammers, a...
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Noryangjin Fish Market, Old and New: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-06-11T13:44:04
We pay a visit to the well-known institution of the Noryangjin fish market — or rather, to both of them. After beginning near downtown Seoul in the early 1920s, Noryangjin moved in the early 1970s ...
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Seoullo 7017 Sneak Preview: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-05-10T23:28:09
We get up above Seoul Station and onto quite possibly the city’s most anticipated urban development of the decade: Seoullo 7017. Previously known as the Seoul Skygarden, the project has permanently...
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The Destruction of Bamgol Village: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-03-24T00:57:50
We join urban explorer Jon Dunbar of Daehanmindecline for a walk through an old neighborhood called Bamgol Village — or what’s left of it. Urban redevelopment never stops in Seoul, and when it happ...
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Euljro Underground Shopping Center: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2017-02-10T02:36:20
We head down into the Euljiro Underground Shopping Center, a nearly two-mile-long subterranean street running beneath downtown from the City Hall to the Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Line 2 s...
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Ikseon-dong Hanok Village: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2016-12-20T23:15:33
We’re joined by German-Korean architect Daniel Tändler of Urban Detail Seoul for a walk through Ikseon-dong Hanok Village, a 1930s-era housing development near downtown that has in recent years see...
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The Bus: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2016-10-27T13:35:06
We spend a day riding on Seoul’s buses, which form a transportation network even more impressive, in its way, than the world-class Seoul Metropolitan Subway. We reveal three of the lines that provi...
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The 63 Building: Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM's Koreascape from 2016-10-04T22:41:09
Known locally as the “gold tooth,” this iconic, gold-glassed skyscraper beside the Han River opened in time for the 1988 Olympics, providing a piece of the background for the torch-lighting ceremon...
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