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, [...]
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, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A big drop in usage of public transit following the coronavirus outbreak is being met by ‘positive’ responses from local citizens, who typically have to contend with overcrowded buses and subway cars. “There are no people in Sadang Station,” said a local office worker. “I always used to wait [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of subway lines 1-8, introduced Sunday the types of criminal acts that often occur in subway stations, on platforms and trains and regulations concerning punishment for these offenses. If a subway passenger spreads false information, including declaring on the subway that one is the novel [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of subway users in South Korea’s capital and nearby metropolitan areas fell 15.3 percent, data showed Thursday, apparently reflecting concerns over the new coronavirus. A total of 37.7 million people used subway lines No. 1 to 8 between Jan. 28-Feb. 2, compared with 44.5 million in the [...]