DAEJEON, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) has developed a new system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to check the core components of subway systems operating in the greater Seoul area on a real-time basis as well as to predict the cycle of subway breakdown. Supported by the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s city government plans to sell the names of subway stations and bus stops to the private sector as a means to overcome its burgeoning losses. Seoul Metro, the operator of the Seoul subway system, recently said it will begin selling the rights to endow a secondary name to [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Late-night services on all subway lines in Seoul will fully return to the pre-pandemic level by early August, subway operators said Monday, following two years of them being scaled back over COVID-19. According to Seoul Metro and Korail, the operators of subway services in the capital, the weekday operating [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The labor union for the Seoul subway said Saturday it reached an agreement with the Seoul city government to extend public transportation operations past midnight, two years after they were scaled back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unionized workers of Seoul Metro, the operator of the Seoul subway system, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Thursday it has opened its first store inside a subway station in Seoul as part of its expansion strategy in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The new branch opened on May 12 inside Gangnam station in a posh neighborhood in southern Seoul. It is designed to offer quick [...]
BUSAN, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Mass Transit Citizen’s Funds Foundation said Monday it will apply a new design introducing the southern port city of Busan’s famous tourist attractions to some of the city’s intra-city buses and subway cars. The Busan Marine Bus and the Metro Marine, both scheduled to be operated until [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The daily number of riders on the Seoul subway system breached the 7 million mark for the first time in 1 1/2 years, data showed Thursday, partly on the back of rollbacks of COVID-19 restrictions. According to the data from Seoul subway operator Seoul Metro, 7,210,000 people rode subway [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), a state-run railway operator, said Thursday it will share important information on subway train operations with KakaoMetro subway navigation app starting from Thursday. In case subway train operations are suspended due to accidents or natural disasters, KORAIL will provide emergency notice on the affected [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s reduced late night subway schedule will begin to be normalized from next week, as social distancing rules have been eased amid the prolonged pandemic, the city government said Friday. Seoul subway trains have been running on a schedule down by up to 20 percent after 10 p.m. since [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups representing people with disabilities are staging a series of protests at subway stations in Seoul, calling upon authorities to allocate sufficient funding for the promotion of disability rights, and amend legislation to improve access to public transportation. The Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) and other civic groups [...]