Category: Seongpo-Dong

The New Ansan City Unmanned Bike Rental System

I love this new system they’ve set up in the city. There are 47 of these bicycle stations located around Ansan and for W20,000/year, any resident can sign up at www.pedalro.kr [EXPIRED LINK REMOVED: https://www.pedalro.kr/index.do] to use the bicycles as much as they want. The only condition is that the...

Tree of Old Fishing Village in Ansan

According to the historical marker for this 400-year old tree, the area was the site of a fishing village through the Korean War. After that, the fishing moved down the coast a ways and the villagers focused on farming. Today, it's at least a 20-minute drive to get to anything...

Squid Bulgogi for Lunch at O-Cheom-Ji in Shillim-Dong

Myunghee and I had our second or third (can't remember which) date at this restaurant almost 18 years ago. As I recall, the last time we ate here was 2002. Heading home from an appointment in Seoul this morning on the green line, we got off at Shillim station and...