KakaoTaxi Revolutionizing Korea’s Taxi Service
The company Kakao is famous for the chatting application KakaoTalk and recently it expanded in other mobile services. A very exciting mobile service is KakaoTaxi, a taxi-hailing app that has been...
Seoul Subway Hacking for at least 5 Months in 2014
The Seoul Metro Corporation, the company that operates subway lines no. 1 to 4, was the victim of a hacking last year. The hacking attack installed malicious software and leaked files...
Plans for Huge Multi-mode COEX Transfer Center
In August, plans for a huge underground transfer center in Gangnam between Samseong Station (Line 2) and Bongeunsa Station (Line 9) were unveiled by Seoul. Located next to the busy COEX...
What is the best-selling item in KTX trains?
A fun fact about train rides in Korea: The most sold item on KTX trains is banana milk since four years. In the first half of this year banana milk...
Jeungsan Station Finally Opens After Being Built 7 Years Ago
Today’s media feature is an article that was actually published over a year ago. The piece discusses the unopened Jeungsan Station on the extension of Busan’s Metro Line 2 which began operating in January...
Bike Sharing System in Seoul
After the big announcement about a new, city-wide public bicycle sharing system last year, we have seen very little about the news about the system. Now stations for the public...
Construction on Seoul Myeonmok Line to Begin 2017
On September 3, Seoul announced that it would be moving forward with plans for yet another light rail line – the Myeonmok Line which it has put out for tender.
Sejong City, the Korean Dream
Korea almost moved the capital from Seoul to a new, planned city in the middle of the country. The city I’m talking about is Sejong City which was opened officially on...
Trial Service of Bimodal Tram in Cheongna
It was quiet for a long time around the development of bimodal trams in Korea. We wrote about this modern bus technology of guided rapid transit that is currently in...
Not Enough Escalators in Gangbuk
A recent article from Yonhap highlighted the fact there are almost twice the number of escalators installed at subway stations in Seoul south of the Han River (Gangnam) compared to those in...