This month, as summer begins, we discuss four recommended books about Seoul, three in English and one in Korean: Janghee Lee's “Seoul's Historic Walks in Sketches,” Jieheerah Yun's "Globalizing Seoul: The City's Cultural and Urban Change," SPACE Books' "Beyond Seun-sangga: 16 Ideas To Go Beyond Big Plans," and 오영욱's "그래도 나는 서울이 좋다" (I Like Seoul Anyway). Each of them offers new ways to perceive and consider the city — political, economic, architectural, artistic — and paves the way for other writers to approach Seoul from their own points of view in the future.