Editor’s Notes: The following was written in a notebook while riding the subway. It was incomplete, but I have recorded it here for posterity.
I’m currently undertaking what has to be one of the longest possible rides one could take on the Seoul Metropolitan Subway System. I thought that it might prove amusing to keep kind of a running log of it all.
At 5:00 I got a call from U-rim telling me that she would finish at 8:00 as opposed to 9:00 and to come out and meet her. I got on the bus in 고양시 and begin to plan out my course of action. Having to be in 오리 at 8:00 pretty much rules out a return home. There are several routes I can take via the subway, but all save for one will get me to 오리 an hour too early. So I select the longest, most dangerous route possible. Essentially I’m taking a return trip home, only instead of stopping I’m going to keep on riding.
I get off the bus in 연시내 at roughly 5:30 and stock up on supplies (meaning I ate 떡꼬치 and took a piss). At roughly 5:45 pm I get on the train for the first leg of this adventure.
연시내 - 합정 (Line 5)
The first leg was fairly uneventful. I listened to Fu Manchu and studied some Korean vocab. At one point a girl who’s look could only be described as “jailbait” got on the train. Other than that, not much went down. At approximately 6:05 I transfered to line 2…the green line.
합정 - 잠실 (Line 2)
This was the longest leg of my journey and therefore percieved to be the most dangerous. After the antics on the subway Wednesday night I knew that I must do everything in my power to avoid people wanting to speak English to me.
