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[Chaparrastique]

Does anyone know why they switch them off every other day?

Is it so that they don't wear out through over-use?

And why, when they turn them back on, they are going the opposite direction to before?

Is it to be fair to people going down as well as going up?

[Chaparrastique]

I also want to know why, where there are two doors in an entrance, Koreans permanently lock one of the doors.


If anyone knows the answer to these questions, please respond.
Thankyou very much.

[guavashake]

[PeteJB]

They lock the doors so everyone can enjoy watching you slam into them.

[Smithington]

I want to know why, in a bblali bballi culture, they move so god-damned slow. Why so many people don't have the decency to stand on the right to let people pass. And why they think it's okay to turn their head left (to the passing lane) to let out a power sneeze. On several occasions I've almost walked right into one of those.

[jazzmaster]

I think they turn off the escalators to save on electricity and like you said to prevent them wearing out from overuse. The newer ones only start when people are on them. I like those ones.

The two doors thing is to do with the heating and air con. For some reason they keep one door locked to make sure all the heat/cool air stays in the building. Sometimes they have a little sticker on the door telling you.

They don't cover their mouth when they sneeze because they are unhygienic halfwits.

[Chaparrastique]

[Chaparrastique]

[optik404]

Where do they turn escalators off every other day? In stations? I assumed stations turn them off temporarily during downtime and back on during peaks hours. My apartment building has an escalator going from the 1st to 2nd floor and it's never turned off.

[bossface]

[Chaparrastique]

[nicwr2002]

[tophatcat]

The 2 door thing*

By only having 1 door unlocked it makes it easier to bump into others when passing through.

[fermentation]

The two door thing makes no sense. There is actually a blog post somebody wrote where he went around asking various people about why one door has to always be locked, and there was no consistent answer.

The saving AC and heating explanation only makes sense because Koreans don't know how to close doors after they've opened them. Trapping heat/AC would be no problem if people actually closed the doors they've opened. If people had the decency and consideration for others to spend a fraction of a second to close a damn door, there would be no need to lock 1 of the doors.

It also makes it harder to enter and exit large buildings where hundreds of people are all going through the same narrow doorway. A building in my university has 4 double doors at the main entrance and they are all locked save for a single door, forcing people to squeeze through eachother.

[optik404]

I've asked people why one door is locked, nobody knows why. It would seem in a situation where a fire is occurring, this would be incredibly dangerous.

For example, my apt buildings lobby has three different exits. Front, side, and rear. The rear is mainly used for large deliveries. Anyways, the rear entrance is always locked, the side entrance is locked at night from 9-6am and throughout the entire weekend. And the front entrance, only one door is left open. I know it's unlikely, but if a fire were to occur at the front, I'm not sure how I would escape. I suppose I could hop the wall in the rear of the building.