CHEONGJU, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting in March, Cheongju Zoo will operate a new monorail specifically designed to accommodate visitors who use wheelchairs, according to an announcement from the city of Cheongju on February 14. This initiative aims to enhance accessibility and ensure a more inclusive experience for all visitors. Funded by a 930 million [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A new monorail offering stunning views of the Baekdudaegan mountain range, a trail of mountains that starts in North Korea and continues to Mount Jiri in South Korea’s southwest, opened Monday. The municipality of Mungyeong in North Gyeongsang Province spent 10 billion won (US$8.2 million) to build a tourist [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Thursday it will install transportation means such as monorails and inclined and vertical elevators in eight areas of the city where pedestrian and vehicle access is difficult due to steep hills. An inclined monorail with an extension of 110 meters will be installed at [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s longest tourist-type monorail train service will kick off in Incheon, west of Seoul, this week, municipal officials said Monday. The operation of the Wolmi Sea Train will begin in the port city’s Wolmi Island district at 4 p.m. Tuesday after an opening ceremony to be attended by [...]
JEJU, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Visitors to South Korea’s highest mountain, Jeju Island’s Mount Halla, can now explore the mountain’s ecosystem on an environmentally-friendly electric monorail. Although monorails were first installed on the mountain’s trails in 1997, they were often the cause of noise and pollution complaints due to their gasoline engines. The monorails were [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu Metropolitan Transit Corporation (DTRO) has started limited operation of its new no. 3 transit line, the first monorail train in Korea, with the goal of opening the service to the public in April, officials said in a statement on February 9. For the next 60 days, 28 line no. 3 [...]
Daegu, Korea, August 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Daegu city government has developed a radio technology that transmits closed-circuit TV images of inside passenger cars of monorails to the central control room in real time. As the installation of wireless antennas is impossible on monorail tracks on which a third Daegu railroad line will be built, engineers have [...]