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Where is Teheran Street?

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2008/06/123_26601.html

[mithridates]

It's that big street that goes from COEX (the south part, by the Hyundai Dep't Store) to Gangnam. Where all the big buildings are.

It got that name in the 1970s to commemorate friendship between Korea and Iran. There's a Seoul street in Tehran too.

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Teheran-ro

[cdninkorea]

In case you need more reference points than what Mithridates gave: it cuts through "Brand Name Street" near Cheongdam station.

I used to live in that area and it is very trendy, but I also felt very poor; there are lots of Ferraris and even some Lamborghinis driving by. The stores and restaurants are, for the most part, out of my price range.

There are still plenty of things to do for the middle income individual though.

[IncognitoHFX]

[Lekker]

"It's like being in New York in a movie," blah blah blah.

No, hardly at all, it's like being in Seoul, thinking and pretending you are in New York. In real life, New Yorkers don't really worry about their appearance 24/7 and they eat a lot of American Beef. The taxi's in New York are a hell of a lot more expensive and New Yorkers in general tend to be a bit more open to foreigners.

Please.

[Smee]

When I used to live in Bundang I'd take the yellow line to Seolleung and walk to COEX along Tehran-ro. It was pleasant, and the area between Yeoksam all the way to COEX is kind of neat. But New York? Um . . . minus the character, worldliness, and charm, I suppose. (Minus the violent crime, too).

But it's kind of weird b/c right behind those big buildngs, all along the financial district, you have rows and rows and rows of motels, massage parlors, and singing rooms. Not the flophouses, either, but expensive "luxury" love motels and wall-to-wall to massage parlors. A telling juxtaposition

[orosee]

"Teheran Boulevard was named after the Iranian capital in the 1970s when Korea enjoyed good relations with the Islamic state that saw the fall of the Shah in 1979 and has become an Islamic state facing international pressure on its nuclear programs."

Doesn't make sense. The road was named before the rise of Khomenei and the Islamic Revolution. So S. Korea could not have enjoyed any relations, good or bad, with the "Islamic state" then because there simply was no Islamic state at the time.

What it probably was, one dictatorship enjoying good relations with another dictatorship.

That's like writing "so-and-so had sex with the deceased", which may or may not imply necrophilia.

I'd love to be a journalist.

[Yaya]

Makes one feel as if he or she is in New York? BULLSH!T!

[Lekker]

Also the article headline is "Youngsters prefer to work, hang out..." but the girl they interviewed is 28.

[Css]

[Fishead soup]

If it's making reference to Iran it should be called

Terroran street

[Fat_Elvis]

[frankhenry]

[Lekker]

[Fishead soup]