Tourist Season: How is Insa-dong?

Insa-dong may be marketed as the heart of traditional Seoul, but the neighborhood’s history is far more complicated than the souvenir shops and tea houses suggest. In this Tourist Season replay, Joe and Shawn trace Insa-dong from its old waterways and aristocratic neighborhoods through colonial-era antique dealing, artists and poets, political repression, fires, commercialization, and the strange evolution of one of Seoul’s most famous tourist districts.