Korea’s Whistle Stops: The Book

Thanks for this. It’s more a photo essay than a review, but I’m not complaining.

As it happens, one of the stations featured in the review–Dongchon, second from the bottom–is my elderly mother-in-law’s hometown: once a tiny farming village, and now part of the urban sprawl of Daegu. It used to be on the main line connecting Daegu to Gyeongju and Pohang, until the tracks were shifted many years ago.

There are, of course, many such forelorn whistlestops across the country, and more than a few abandoned branch lines whose glory days are long since past.