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Plastic B
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Daejeon no more
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My gf and I took the KTX to Busan and back last weekend, my last in Korea for a while, methinks! It is not so comfortable, but it is fast. It is also relatively cheap, being only 4000 won more than the Saemaeul for the same trip, but an hour shorter over that distance.
On the train we met a comedian who was performing at the Gwangan beach festival, who later introduced us to a clown on stilts, three v.sexy dancing girls and the Managing Director of Jinro! Ho ho ho! They plied us with so much soju I still haven't recovered. I shudder like a crosstown bus when I see the couple of bottles I stuffed in my backpack for my trip through the wilds of southest Asia... |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| In a million years, if humankind is still alive, will poets still cry sadness out, and will there be madness to be sad about? |
I hope so.
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Korea's Risky KTX
When the train enters tunnels, the sound becomes so great that it makes passengers' ears ring, and this is said to be because the train is not hermetically sealed properly. Korail should have given more attention to the fact that because of our mountainous terrain, 33% of our rail runs through tunnels; this is twice the ratio of the Japanese example, and the French trains run only along the plains. The fact that the number of departures being made is 30 percent less than what the system can handle and the thing is still breaking down means the train is even less reliable.
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200404/200404040024.html |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| the sound becomes so great that it makes passengers' ears ring, and this is said to be because the train is not hermetically sealed properly. |
I read about this a few days ago too. People are being babies. It was not loud at all. Even in tunnels. The normal train is 3 times louder. The train isn't perfect but this is just BS pissing and moaning.
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Someone prouldy asked me today why America does not have a bullet train and Korea does? It was hard for him to understand how large America actually is. So I told him we can all afford to fly. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone prouldy asked me today why America does not have a bullet train and Korea does? It was hard for him to understand how large America actually is. So I told him we can all afford to fly. |
The U.S. has high-speed rail. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| we do? 300km/hr? |
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