For my latest Korea Times article I look at how Sindang-dong's gentrification has proceeded (or receded) over the past couple of years, since I wrote this earlier article. As today's article notes, I'll be leading a walk around the area for RAS Korea this Saturday.
For greater detail than what is listed in the article, here are the numbers for the trendy businesses that have opened around Sindang Station / Central Market over the years.
The area has seen its fair share of changes since I moved here eight years ago, but its identity remains intact, which is not always possible when gentrification comes knocking.
(I'll note there are some... odd edits in the published article to the draft I submitted. When defining what makes new businesses 'hip,' it was specifically Instagram, the social media of choice for the MZ generation, that I mentioned as their main means of promotion, not a generic "social media" presence. Mentions of "these businesses" in reference to trendy businesses were also changed in some cases to "new businesses," which is not at all the same thing. The list of new businesses in the area would be much larger, but a run-of-the-mill franchise haejangguk restaurant would not fall under the "hip" or "trendy" label (though I'll admit there's a certain subjective nature to deciding where to draw the line...).)
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