SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Wednesday it will start providing 5G-speed Wi-Fi services inside subway trains on major lines in Seoul by the end of this year in a move to improve network services. The ICT ministry said it plans to make 5G network services on the 28-gigahertz (GHz) [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s subway operator will introduce brand new trains equipped with free mobile phone chargers and wider seats for pregnant women starting later this month, officials said Friday. Seoul Metro, the operator of the capital’s vast subway system, will put five new trains comprising 40 passenger cars into operation on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro’s transport revenues have fallen for two consecutive years due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The operator of the city’s vast subway system said Thursday its transport revenues stood at 1.15 trillion won (US$961 million) last year, down 3.27 percent from a year ago, following a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-run railway research body has developed new technology that can reduce both the noise and fine dust generated around railroad and subway tracks. The Korea Railroad Research Institute said Monday that it had developed a ‘noise reduction-type fanless dust collector.’ With a minimal thickness, the fanless dust collector [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Some sections of the Seoul subway are expected to offer 5G-based Wi-Fi service starting from late October. The Ministry of Science and ICT, together with three major mobile carriers, launched an empirical test to improve the performance of 28-gigahertz (GHz) 5G subway Wi-Fi at Sindap Station in Seoul on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The unionized workers of Seoul Metro, operator of the Seoul subway system, called off a planned walkout that was set to take place Tuesday as they reached a last-minute deal with the management. The deal was reached shortly before midnight following a marathon negotiation that began at 3 p.m. [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry said Monday it will work with the country’s wireless service providers to test millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G technology in the Seoul subway system in a move to improve network services and speed up commercialization. South Korea’s 5G networks are currently deployed on the mid-band spectrum, [...]
DAEJEON, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A new artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed to monitor the abnormal behaviors of subway passengers in the central city of Daejeon. The Daejeon Metropolitan City Government and the Daejeon Express Transit Corp. jointly announced that the ‘AI Edge System for Urban Railroads’ was selected as a state-backed [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of local and foreign researchers have succeeded in demonstrating augmented reality (AR) service at a giga-level speed in a running subway. In a joint study with researchers from Britain, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said Wednesday the successful demonstration of 5G AR service at a [...]
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 [...]