Commuting time to City Hall ranges from 30 to 45 minutes. Public transportation is readily available, and school bus service is available for Foreign Schools. Travel time to schools is about 30 to 45 minutes. This name means the area east of the icehouse, used prior to the advent of electricity to store blocks of mountain ice during the summers of Yi Dynasty Korea. It is a pleasant, convenient residential area.
Most homes are large with gardens.
There are a few apartments in the area. All schools have buses servicing this area. This is not a closed area, so tenants must tend to their own security and most residents do take precautions. Since there are several high ranking Korean officials' homes and foreign ambassadors' homes in this area, so there is the added security of many national police on duty twenty-four hours a day nearby. There are mostly individual homes, and a few apartment complexes in this area.