{"id":16,"date":"2013-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/post-9-april-3-1906-gyeonghui\/"},"modified":"2013-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T00:00:00","slug":"post-9-april-3-1906-gyeonghui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/03\/post-9-april-3-1906-gyeonghui\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-9: Gyeonghui, 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Today, April 3rd, was the day the the\u00a0 &#8220;<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gyeongui_Line\">Gyeong-Ui Railroad<\/a>&#8221; (\uacbd\uc758\uc120) opened. In 1906. It connected Seoul and Sinhui on the North-Korea\/Chinese border. I saw this mentioned in the newspaper in the &#8220;On this Day in History&#8221; section,<\/p>\n<p>This rail line still exists intact, today, It was incorporated into the ever-growing Greater Seoul urban rail network (still often loosely called a &#8216;subway&#8217;) in 2009. I remember when that happened, as I was living in Ilsan at the time, through which it passes. One station was only 10 minutes&#8217; walk from my workplace.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span>I have ridden on this rail-line more than a few times.<\/span> It is pleasant to ride, and takes not more than a half hour\u00a0 between Ilsan and central Seoul. You can ride it today way up north, to within a stone&#8217;s throw of the DMZ.<\/p>\n<p><span>I have even walked through <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorasan_Station\">Dorasan<\/a>, the northern-terminus station of the line<\/span>.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 3rd, was the day the the\u00a0 &#8220;Gyeong-Ui Railroad&#8221; (\uacbd\uc758\uc120) opened. In 1906. It connected Seoul and Sinhui on the North-Korea\/Chinese border. I saw this mentioned in the newspaper in the &#8220;On this Day in History&#8221; section, This rail line still exists intact, today, It was incorporated into the ever-growing Greater Seoul urban rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}