Design for Seoul Station Overpass
The Seoul Station Overpass is going to close for traffic and transform to a public space until 2017. The project was inspired by New York’s High Line and it is...
Safer Roads for Children in Korea
Today, May 5th, is Children’s Day in Korea. Regarding children in traffic, they are probably the weakest traffic participants and most vulnerable to fatal traffic accidents. Korea achieved improvements in...
Seoul Announces Initiatives to Improve Pedestrian Environments
Seoul City announced a number of new policies and initiatives to help improve pedestrian environments within the city on April 23. Listed below are some of the plans in store: One...
Increase of Seoul’s Public Transport Fares
It was speculated since a couple of months that there will be an increase of Seoul’s public transport fares in 2015. Today the transport department of Seoul submitted the proposal for...
Daegu’s Monorail and Third Line Opens 23 April
In 2012 we posted about the Daegu Monorail, the city’s third line which is set to open on 23 April. Originally it was scheduled to open in conjunction with the...
ICLEI World Congress 2015 in Seoul
The biggest event about sustainable urban development Korea has ever seen is going to happen from April 8 to 12 in Seoul. The ICLEI World Congress 2015 is a four-day conference with...
Seoul Station Airport Rail Transfer Tunnel Finally Opens
The Line 9 extension wasn’t the only thing that opened today. A new transfer tunnel at Seoul Station from the Airport Railroad to Lines 1 and 4 has finally opened...
KTXs to New Pohang Station from 2 April
Together with the opening of the Honam High Speed Railway on 2 April, the new high speed Donghae (East Sea) Line opens up from Moryang (모량) to a new Pohang Station (포항) on...
Concerns as Line 9 Extension Opening Approches
The term 지옥철 or “hell train” is a play on the Korean word for subway and has been tossed around the media over the past month in relation to the...
Next Stop: 2015
A look back at 2014 Thanks to everyone who took the time to read and comment on our blog posts over the past year. There were definitely a few highlights...