SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, announced Monday that it has taken more than 100,000 measures of disinfecting the subway to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. For 45 days since Jan. 27, when the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention elevated the country’s infectious disease [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, has developed a system that uses big data and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to anticipate signs of defects on subway trains. Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) uses IoT technology to analyze the operational data of trains and defect records collected by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro said Wednesday it is preparing to launch parcel delivery service in the capital area by utilizing its existing infrastructure, such as depots, old train cars and subway stations. Seoul Metro, a public corporation of the Seoul Metropolitan Government in charge of operating subway lines 1-8 and part [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro has managed to cut its typical escalator repair time nearly in half using Internet of Things technology. The state-owned transport company said on Tuesday that the average time spent fixing an escalator dropped from 56 minutes to 37 minutes, down 37 percent, after the adoption of IoT technology [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80 reports of “molca”, the Korean word denoting the surreptitious filming of women’s bodies, came out of Seoul’s Hongik Univ. Station on Line 2, the subway station servicing the Hongik University neighborhood highly popular with foreign tourists and South Korean youth. Among the undesirable “top ten” subway [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — After a 14-month run, a free smartphone power bank lending service with depots at subway stations across Seoul is no longer in operation. Since February 23, “out of service” notices have been posted on the now defunct depot machines called Happyspots, as shared by Seoul Metro. Seoul’s subway operator [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s decades-long free subway ride policy for elderly passengers is being met with calls for a higher age threshold, with local public transport operators seeking ways to offset the growing losses. Since its implementation during the 1980s under the Chun Doo-hwan government, the free subway ride policy has been [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro announced plans on Monday to ban all plastic surgery advertisements from the city’s metro system by 2020. The latest move by Seoul Metro has been met with praise amid growing criticism over what is known as ‘advertisement pollution’, characterized by the overwhelming number of advertisement images found [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Criticism is growing against Seoul Metro’s controversial sale of subway station names, which began as an additional source of revenue to cover its deficits, with passengers slamming the policy that has now resulted in over 30 stations having two different names with little to no relevance to the location, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government is reportedly considering a 24-hour subway, amid growing calls for longer operating hours, which could see the city join the likes of London, Berlin and New York with a 24-hour transit system. Earlier this month, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced Seoul Metro is looking for [...]