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[Been Here Years]

I feel sorow but more I feel anger. This is a new subway system - only finished around the end of 95 or 96. Yet today I read about the lack of a sprinkler system on the station; the use of fabrics that were highly flammable and gave off a highly toxic gas when on fire; the lack of a security system on the train and station to cover this kind of accident; the lack of manual over-ride systems to allow the doors to be opened when the electrical systems failed.

All these items could have been and should have been addressed since they are not new ideas and have been around in public areas for many, many years in other countries. If this is the system in their newest full subway system then what is the older subway system in Seoul like. I do not use the subway here because of the stairs and the lack of fresh air circulation but I now have another reason for staying out of the subway.

Let's hope that like other countries Korea will use this tragedy to improve the systems country wide. I read about the money to be spent renewing the stream that was buried many years ago under roadways - surely this money would be better spent on the public transport system.

[scot47]

Awful business.
What sickened me was the deeply offensive comments posted here by teachers. Even if you are deeply unhappy in your job, that is no reason to gloat over the deaths of the innocent, simply becasue you heard insensitive comments after the NYC attacks on Sep 11 2001.

To me a reminder that there are people teaching here who should NEVER have left home.

[matko]

scott47
Deeply offensive comments by teachers????
Pc bahng or bust, fair enough.

What other teacher posted a "deeply offensive remark"

Don't judge us all by "one" lunatic!

[scot47]

You are right. It was multiple postings by one teacher.

It highlighted a defect of the new forum. Entries appear instantly before they are moderated. Only after dave was notified were these remarks edited out. In thenold style, moderators saw them then edited them then posted them.

Maybe Dave will have a re-think.

[udenjoe]

Been Here Years: Amen to that. I also saw that they busted a gas line and blew up the whole street when they were building it. Those Daegu people are cursed.
It's really terrible that most of the people were trapped because of the system. And I heard the driver of the other train didn't bother to open the door so the people burned inside. Can you believe there are 300 missing?
I would also like to point out how many people are so eager to point out the flaws of Korea. This subway is obvious, but complaining about the coverage? They got news on almost every hour not to mention YTN. You also have the various news pages on the internet. Just don't count on much on a Sunday's newspaper.

[Circus Monkey]

[Captain Obvious 2.0]

[Rand Al Thor]

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200302/200302190040.html

[Circus Monkey]

[weatherman]

I thought that the manual override system for the doors was a no brainer, but these people were in total pitch blackness with smoke and confusion. I think we need to move away from questioning the people in the cars to questions the engineers and management personal who approved the systems the Deagu underground uses, and more importantly we need to question the operators of the underground who went ahead with actions that we not safety first responses.

[Circus Monkey]

I agree weatherman and I'm not blaming the people on the cars for what happened. Please don't misunderstand that, although there is something to be said to know where things are for your own survival's sake.

CM

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[william beckerson]

And it seems the fire spread faster than... something that spreads really fast... Not a lot of time to scramble on the floor for a switch

[Captain Obvious 2.0]