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Posted inin General News and Updates
Seoul

A Transport Conference About Happiness and Creativity

Posted byby Nikola
April 21, 2013
0 Comments

On Friday I’ve attended a transport conference about challenges and goals in Korea in the next 12 months. President Park Geun-Hye strongly emphasized in her inauguration speech that happiness of...

Posted inin General News and Updates
Seoul

Overview of Seoul’s Car-Sharing Services

Posted byby Nikola
April 18, 2013
2 Comments

Earlier this year, we wrote about Seoul Metropolitan Government‘s carsharing service which started two months ago. Actually that wasn’t the first car-sharing service in Korea’s capital and also some more followed...

Posted inin Large Scale Projects
Seoul

The End of Dream Hub

Posted byby Nikola
April 10, 2013
11 Comments

The largest urban planning project of South Korea is never going to be realized. Of course, I talk about the Yongsan International Business District, better known as Dream Hub. KORAIL...

Posted inin General News and Updates
Seoul

Seoul’s 100-Year Plan

Posted byby Nikola
April 6, 2013
1 Comment

On April 1st, Park Won-Soon introduced the measure to design a basic plan of Seoul about the development in the next 100 years, in short “Seoul 100 Plan” (or in...

Posted inin Bus
Heavy Rail

Public Transport in Taipei

Posted byby Nikola
March 31, 2013
5 Comments

The last six days I was in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. Beforehand I heard a lot of good things about public transport in Taipei and so I was very...

Posted inin Public Spaces
Seoul

Keeping the Joongang Cinema in Pictures

Posted byby Nikola
March 23, 2013
5 Comments

Seoul is a very dynamic city and the built environment develops very fast. The changes can be through a new shop or restaurant, a new facade or even completely new...

Posted inin Seoul
Subway/Metro

Reading a Book Underground

Posted byby Nikola
March 21, 2013
2 Comments

If you ride the subway in Seoul, you’ll notice that it’s most of the times very quiet. It’s rather seldom that you hear somebody talk or noisy bigger groups of...

Posted inin Bus
General News and Updates

New Generation of Trams

Posted byby Nikola
March 20, 2013
7 Comments

There aren’t any trams in Seoul since fifty years, but it doesn’t mean that Korea completely abandoned the idea of trams. Actually, Korea currently works on the development of new...

Posted inin Public Infrastructure
Public Spaces

Suggestion for Sejong-ro’s Car-Free Day

Posted byby Nikola
March 14, 2013
0 Comments

After I saw that it’s possible to propose events for the car-free day at Sejong-ro, I thought about an idea. I tried to make a suggestion which has nothing to...

Posted inin Bicycle
Public Infrastructure

Seoul gives out free bike maps

Posted byby Nikola
March 11, 2013
3 Comments

The days are getting longer, the sun gains strength and it slowly gets warmer in Seoul. It’s the perfect time to prepare your bicycle for the new cycling season. On...