SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, said Tuesday that it will replace all fabric chairs with reinforced plastic chairs by 2029 to keep the subways clean from bedbugs and other pollutants. Fabric currently accounts for 54 percent of all subway seats operated by the city-run corporation, followed [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s subway system is set to become more tourist-friendly with the expansion of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) interpretation system in 11 stations, facilitating real-time conversations between foreign visitors and station staff in their native languages. Seoul Metro announced on March 14 that the ‘Simultaneous Foreign Language Conversation System’ will be [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of Seoul subway lines No. 1-8, announced measures Thursday to ban all subway protests by a disabled advocacy group after they resumed their morning rush-hour protest this week. Seoul Metro said it came up with the three-step countermeasures against Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of Seoul subway lines No. 1-8, plans to pilot seatless subway cars next year to alleviate overcrowding during the morning and evening rush hour, officials said Wednesday. Under the pilot project set to commence in January, seats inside two cars of each subway train running [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government and Seoul Metro have announced plans to enhance safety measures for subway platforms to prevent falls. Recently, a 4-year-old boy fell through a gap at Chungmuro Station on Seoul Subway Line 3 while disembarking from the subway. Passengers heard his mother’s cries, stopped the subway [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the subway service in Seoul, said Thursday it has kicked off a “smart station” project aimed at overhauling the outdated monitoring system of subway line No. 5 into a unified and integrated system. The initiative seeks to enable the customer safety control center to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the city-run operator of the subway system in Seoul, said Monday it will establish a communication system aimed at facilitating interactions between subway staff and foreigners through real-time translation. The organization intends to choose a developer to design and implement an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system and initiate a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro’s transport revenues have fallen for two consecutive years due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The operator of the city’s vast subway system said Thursday its transport revenues stood at 1.15 trillion won (US$961 million) last year, down 3.27 percent from a year ago, following a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The unionized workers of Seoul Metro, operator of the Seoul subway system, called off a planned walkout that was set to take place Tuesday as they reached a last-minute deal with the management. The deal was reached shortly before midnight following a marathon negotiation that began at 3 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the city’s vast subway system, has signed a deal with an Australian engineering firm to provide consulting services to Sydney Metro, the Korean company said Tuesday. Under the deal signed in mid-November, Seoul Metro and Ricardo will jointly assist Sydney Metro in the design, [...]