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willteachforfood
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| 1) late night 24 hour subways would make Seoul a better place to go for the weekend. Other sities don't need it because they are smaller. |
#1 best misspelled word in the history of Dave's ESL....bar none. |
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50ptoes
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No motorcycles on sidewalks.
trashcans scattered about would also be nice. |
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Menino80
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Enforce laws, write them down, ensure that everyone knows what they are, tell your employees what the hell is going on.
Be. Specific. |
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interestedinhanguk
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| Medical privacy laws. |
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Lastrova
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The biggest problem with increasing subway hours in Seoul is how it would encourage a lot of alcoholism and absenteeism in the corporate community. Staying out later, having access to cheap and punctual transportation, no traffic headaches. Japan debated this exact problem and chose against it.
Reducing noise pollution would be a good start in the big cities. |
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atwood
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Keeping the streets, sidewalks, parks, etc, clean would be a great start. Focus on maintenance rather than running things down until they need to be renovated, rebuilt, replaced, etc.
Creating smoke-free parks, apartment complexes, and smoke-free buffer zones around schools and hospitals.
Getting police to enforce the law more vigorously. |
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ikrout
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| coralreefer_1 wrote: |
Just one small thing~
Also..one more on the traffic. This is a country with SOO much technology..so it would be great if stop lights were run on sensors that measure traffic flow rather than an absolute timer. There are so many cases where there are roads where the main traffic is stopped for a crossroad completely void of traffic. Same with crosswalks...if there is no road but simply a crosswalk, the light should not stop traffic unless there is actually a pedestrian there to push the button to cross.
Doing the above would do quite a bit to preserve the precious gas that so many have to pay so much for. It is so wasteful to be cruising along at 80kpm and have to stop on some deserted highway through farms for a traffic light that allows traffic from the tiniest country farm access road which almost never has a car or plow needing to get out, wait 45 seconds..then start again. I am not sure of the science behind gasoline consumption from stop to cruising speed, or gasoline consumed during the idle position...but surely if traffic flow could be controlled for efficiently Korea may be able to reduce its oil imports. |
+1 and also let people turn left on a green, as long as they yield to oncoming traffic. with the congestion problems here Korea could do so much to improve the situation by just making the stop lights work better here. Now you have to wait forever at any big stop light because there are separate green lights for going straight and going left. Multiply this times 4 and some stop lights take an eternity, all the while no traffic is actually moving half the time. |
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ikrout
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| I would like to see more art in the subway stations to make them distinctive and appealing. I think some money should be set aside to have professional artist come in residence and create murals or sculptures to put into a subway station. Maybe each station could have a theme that artists would work with. Over time more and more of the subway stations could be covered in interesting art instead of the drab gray world most subways are now. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ikrout wrote: |
| coralreefer_1 wrote: |
Just one small thing~
Also..one more on the traffic. This is a country with SOO much technology..so it would be great if stop lights were run on sensors that measure traffic flow rather than an absolute timer. There are so many cases where there are roads where the main traffic is stopped for a crossroad completely void of traffic. Same with crosswalks...if there is no road but simply a crosswalk, the light should not stop traffic unless there is actually a pedestrian there to push the button to cross.
Doing the above would do quite a bit to preserve the precious gas that so many have to pay so much for. It is so wasteful to be cruising along at 80kpm and have to stop on some deserted highway through farms for a traffic light that allows traffic from the tiniest country farm access road which almost never has a car or plow needing to get out, wait 45 seconds..then start again. I am not sure of the science behind gasoline consumption from stop to cruising speed, or gasoline consumed during the idle position...but surely if traffic flow could be controlled for efficiently Korea may be able to reduce its oil imports. |
+1 and also let people turn left on a green, as long as they yield to oncoming traffic. |
This is a recipe for disaster in Korea because drivers don't like to yield and because they often follow the car ahead blindly. Great for car repair shops, terrible for traffic.
One of the biggest sources of congestion is drivers who run red lights only to be caught stuck in the middle of an intersection blocking the traffic that now has a green light but nowhere to go. Letting drivers turn left on any green would make this problem worse. |
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BoholDiver
Joined: 03 Oct 2009
Location: Canada
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Highly developed countries have unemployment. Korea has construction.
| atwood wrote: |
Keeping the streets, sidewalks, parks, etc, clean would be a great start. Focus on maintenance rather than running things down until they need to be renovated, rebuilt, replaced, etc.
Creating smoke-free parks, apartment complexes, and smoke-free buffer zones around schools and hospitals.
Getting police to enforce the law more vigorously. |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Enforce the laws. |
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Slowmotion
Joined: 15 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ikrout wrote: |
| I would like to see more art in the subway stations to make them distinctive and appealing. I think some money should be set aside to have professional artist come in residence and create murals or sculptures to put into a subway station. Maybe each station could have a theme that artists would work with. Over time more and more of the subway stations could be covered in interesting art instead of the drab gray world most subways are now. |
I like this idea too and I've always been a big critic for the company who manages lines 5-8. All their subway stations pretty much look like bathrooms with that stupid tile they use. I mean a subway station like Itaewon where tourists go to shouldn't look so boringgggg. |
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apgujohn
Joined: 09 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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| bobbybigfoot wrote: |
(4) Have a national campaign to teach Koreans how to make a proper cup of drip coffee.
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Yes! I'll second that. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Lastrova wrote: |
The biggest problem with increasing subway hours in Seoul is how it would encourage a lot of alcoholism and absenteeism in the corporate community. Staying out later, having access to cheap and punctual transportation, no traffic headaches. Japan debated this exact problem and chose against it.
Reducing noise pollution would be a good start in the big cities. |
Not necessarily. Koreans go out anyway on weekdays and drink, and preventing people from driving while drunk is key. |
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redaxe
Joined: 01 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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| apgujohn wrote: |
| bobbybigfoot wrote: |
(4) Have a national campaign to teach Koreans how to make a proper cup of drip coffee.
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Yes! I'll second that. |
Because Americano tastes so much different?
You guys are lucky to be in a country where coffee is extremely popular. Try teaching English in China and see how you adjust to drinking nothing but tea! |
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