SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government will officially allow bicycles in designated subway cars on Line No. 7 during weekday daytime hours, starting from this year. The daytime bike subway cars have been tested on a trial basis on subway Line No. 7 since September 2020. Starting from this year, users [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the city’s vast subway system, said Wednesday it had replaced fixed-type safety doors (3,810 units) and advertising boards at the platforms of 132 subway stations encompassing its lines No. 1 to 8 with foldable models that can be used as emergency exits. In particular, [...]
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, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The average accessibility of the fifth-generation network in major subway lines in South Korea reached over 75 percent, a lawmaker said Monday, as the country races to boost nationwide coverage. The high-speed network’s accessibility stood at 76.3 percent across 12 subways lines in six major cities across the country, [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent smartphone app upgrade means that passengers won’t have to struggle over people refusing to wear masks on subway trains in Seoul. Starting on Aug. 3, Seoul will add a new function to Seoul Metro’s smartphone app that will enable passengers to report those who refuse to wear [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Subways running across South Korea’s capital will get contactless gates that will allow passengers to pass through without directly tagging their cards, the Seoul metropolitan government said Thursday. The city’s subway operator plans to inject 2.9 billion won (US$2.4 million) to set up 556 “tagless gates” at subway stations [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — At 10:43 a.m. on June 11, a subway train in Seoul slammed into another train stopped at Sanggye Station on Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway network in Nowon District. There were no human casualties, but train operation was stopped from Nowon Station to Danggogae Station for some [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway passengers in Seoul will be required to wear face masks during crowded hours starting this week as the city government seeks to curb community transmissions of the new coronavirus, the city government said Monday. The Seoul metropolitan government unveiled a set of measures that will begin being implemented [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway stations commonly packed during commuting hours and major transfer stations saw a plunge in the number of passengers since the coronavirus outbreak. Seoul’s Yeouido Station on Subway Line 5 and 9, located in one of the city’s biggest business districts, recorded an average of 257,281 passengers during rush [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Subway services in the capital area will end an hour earlier starting in April, operators said Monday, to better contain the new coronavirus that has infected more than 900 in the wider Seoul area. Under the plan, subway lines No. 1 to 9, as well as the Ui-Sinseol line, [...]