SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Police raided the headquarters of a Seoul subway operator Thursday as part of their probe into the cause of the accident that killed a 19-year-old maintenance worker on a station platform late last month. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA) dispatched around 100 officers to raid some 10 organizations, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Passengers who ride the subway’s Bundang Line might find an orange sticker on the floor in front of their seat. The stickers are part of a campaign to stop inconvenience caused by ‘manspreading’ in subways. Two oval shaped stickers are placed in the shape of a heart. When one’s feet [...]
SEOUL, Jan.27 (Korea Bizwire) – A homeless man in his 50s swung a knife in the subway headed to Jonggak station, causing passengers to evacuate. The police set out to prevent the worst case, and the man was caught near Seoul station after an hour and 20 minutes. According to the police, the homeless man [...]
SEOUL, Dec.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-un the North Korean leader who is also known to be a chain smoker, was spotted smoking a cigarette and then throwing the butt away inside the subway. The North Korean Central News Agency reported footage of Kim Jong-un participating in the test drive of a subway developed with [...]
Seoul, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The design of seats reserved for expecting mothers in the trains of Seoul Metro will be renewed, so that they stand out more. Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that they would renew the design of the ‘seats for expecting mothers’, so that subway passengers could yield their seats to pregnant women. The [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Western District Court has ruled that a man who said swear words to himself without referring to anyone during an argument can’t be charged with verbal abuse. According to the court on June 1, a man known by his surname Kim got into a fight on the subway [...]
DAEGU, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — After two foreign nationals reportedly broke into a Daegu subway station at night and spray-painted graffiti on a train car, Korean subways are being criticized for lax security measures. According to the Suseong Police Station in Daegu, Greek and German nationals in their twenties, who arrived in Korea on [...]