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Weigookin74
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 Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:34 pm Post subject: Driving into Seoul? Parking in Gyeonggi do? |
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| Hey, is it possible to drive into Gyeong-gi Do and park my car in some kind of parking place and take a train or subway into Seoul? I don't want to drive into Seoul itself. Highway traffic from Bundang and up is insane and would just infuriate me. But bus is slow moving here in the provinces until getting to the highway itself. However, I could quickly until I hit Gyeong-gi (Suwon, Bundang, where ever). Also, if possible, can car be left there for a couple of days if I want to stay overnight in Seoul? |
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: Driving into Seoul? Parking in Gyeonggi do? |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| Hey, is it possible to drive into Gyeong-gi Do and park my car in some kind of parking place and take a train or subway into Seoul? I don't want to drive into Seoul itself. Highway traffic from Bundang and up is insane and would just infuriate me. But bus is slow moving here in the provinces until getting to the highway itself. However, I could quickly until I hit Gyeong-gi (Suwon, Bundang, where ever). Also, if possible, can car be left there for a couple of days if I want to stay overnight in Seoul? |
I always drive in Seoul, the parking is usually free (unlike most other big cities) and it's much more convenient than taking the subway with children. |
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IS-F
Joined: 20 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: Driving into Seoul? Parking in Gyeonggi do? |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
| Hey, is it possible to drive into Gyeong-gi Do and park my car in some kind of parking place and take a train or subway into Seoul? I don't want to drive into Seoul itself. Highway traffic from Bundang and up is insane and would just infuriate me. But bus is slow moving here in the provinces until getting to the highway itself. However, I could quickly until I hit Gyeong-gi (Suwon, Bundang, where ever). Also, if possible, can car be left there for a couple of days if I want to stay overnight in Seoul? |
There's a commuter parking lot at Suseo station (Bundang line). |
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ATM SPIDERTAO
Joined: 05 Jul 2009
Location: seoul, south korea
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| Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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I live beside Jukjeon station
I just park under the bridge behind jukjeon station. just find a place where lots of people park and just park there lol not too hard! |
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giraffe
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:03 am Post subject: |
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| IF you cant find somekind of parking near a subway line my fall back is to look for a HOMEPLUS. BUt you would have to make sure that the homeplus you park in doesnt have a license plate reader/ toll both. |
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b-class rambler
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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| giraffe wrote: |
| IF you cant find somekind of parking near a subway line my fall back is to look for a HOMEPLUS. BUt you would have to make sure that the homeplus you park in doesnt have a license plate reader/ toll both. |
This is what I would've suggested and what I've done myself a few times. Have a look on the map for a Home Plus, E-mart or other big retail place with free parking that's near a subway station.
Unfortunately, these big supermarkets are increasingly getting wiser about people who effectively use their car parks as a park + ride, so they'll often have a number plate reader and on your way out you'll be asked to show your receipt for shopping done in their store. They'll have posted up somewhere how much you need to spend there to get however many hours of free parking.
Obviously, what you could do is kill two birds with one stone by getting a substantial amount of stuff you need from the supermarket whose car park you're using. Even if you're a little bit over their maximum free parking time, if you've spent quite a lot in their store they'll probably just wave you through.
Also, a lot of stores that have the number plate readers don't actually bother stopping people on the way out outside of busy periods. So if you park there on quieter weekdays, for example, they might not care. Difficult to predict that one though.
BTW, the large retail outlet parking is probably not an option if you were staying overnight in Seoul, I'd guess. I don't know anyone who's tried this and so I don't know what would happen. But I wouldn't try it myself as getting one of those near impossible to remove stickers on the windscreen would be something I could definitely foresee.
OP, if you want more specific advice it'd help if you said exactly where you were coming from and which part of central Seoul you wanted to get to. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| By the time you get parked, find the appropriate public transportation and buy a ticket for it, you could have just driven to Seoul. I'm not sure where you are in the country, but most places out in the boondocks have express buses going straight to Seoul that'll get you there just as fast as driving yourself. |
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b-class rambler
Joined: 25 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| By the time you get parked, find the appropriate public transportation and buy a ticket for it, you could have just driven to Seoul. |
Yes, definitely some truth in that.
But it just depends where you park and where in Seoul you would've been going to. If you don't choose your out-of-town parking place very well then you may well not be saving yourself any time, hassle or anything else.
But I've sometimes parked at a Home Plus in south-eastern Seoul, to which it was just 5 minutes from expressway exit to parking the car, then 5 minutes or less from car to subway platform and then 25 minutes from there to where I was going in central Seoul. It would have taken me at least as long to continue my drive all the way there, considerably longer if the traffic was bad, and it would've been the kind of stressful driving you'd avoid if you could do so easily, particularly if you've already driven a fair distance and need a break. Also, in the area of Seoul where I was going, it would've been a hassle to find somewhere to park and probably would've cost me a bit to do so.
But there are other times when those factors pan out very differently and it does make much more sense to drive all the way there. |
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