This was the first place I ever visited for the first two days or so when I was in Seoul for the first time in 2001 when I first came over here to study. The reason I chose Euljiro 4-ga out of all the other nice places I could have visited was because of a youth hostel I had found online in the area called Traveller's A, which was outside exit 4 I think, slightly towards where the Cheonggyecheon right now. Since 2001 was before the road was taken down to restore the stream, the area was extremely boring and depressing looking, and since I like coffee shops I spent the first two days wandering around the area looking for one. Well, the first night and the next day. The first one was this '커피전문점' which was just located on the 2nd floor of the hostel and had one ajumma running the place, opened at 11 and had toast and watery coffee. The next day I wandered around the nearby roads, found some textile and lighting shops, decided not to go any farther than the big Cheonggyecheon Freeway, and went back when I noticed the word 커피 once again. This also turned out to be a tiny dark place with only a few ajosshis, gross coffee, and beer. I had come from Kurume (close to Fukuoka) in Japan and I began to really dislike Seoul, thinking that since this was the centre of the city that's all it had. Luckily the next day when I decided to take the subway to see what I could find I chose a place called 新村 (신촌, oh, atarashii mura! Maybe this will be good!). Once I got off the subway there and went up to the surface of Shincheon Station I was saved, and I've liked Seoul ever since. mithridates aka 데이빛 16:05, 1 August 2006 (CEST)