Koreascape<\/a><\/em> on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of another one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This time 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 subway stations. Initially opening for business in 1983 at the same time Line 2 itself did, its ever-changing selection of shops supply everything from tailored clothing to computer equipment to medical supplies to\u00a0punch clocks to electronic cigarettes to freshly baked bread and freshly roasted coffee \u2014 not to mention a safe haven from the weather during cold winters like this one. The\u00a0Euljiro Underground Shopping Center can feel like a part of the city time forgot, but\u00a0now\u00a0that it has begun providing space for\u00a0art installations and hosting exhibits like those of the recent Seoul Architecture Festival, what does its\u00a0future hold?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Euljiro-underground-1024x685.jpg\")
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