Namiseom’s fall colors come by ferry

The leaves underfoot on Namiseom’s Songpa Ginkgo Tree Lane were dry and brown on Thursday. Then, around 2 p.m., two trucks arrived with 5 metric tons of bright yellow ginkgo leaves from Seoul. As workers raked the leaves across the 100-meter lane, visitors gathered on the once-quiet stretch. Soon they were laughing, scooping up handfuls of leaves and tossing them into the air. “They came from Songpa-gu,” one voice called out. “So pretty,” said another. The leaves had come from Seoul’s Songpa-gu