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[chronicpride]

Everytime I have the subway experience, I smile. There is nothing that captures the whole Korean 'bappayo' essence than the caverns underneath Seoul. The smells. The sounds. The people. It's a people-watcher's dream. I love the pushing and shoving during rush hour. Everyone going somewhere with stories and lives of their own. It makes me remember where I am.

Say what you want, but I love it down there.

[OiGirl]

I love the Gwangju subway.

[VanIslander]

Reason 1012 why I'm glad to live outside any of the subway cities: Who'd want to go underground on a beautiful day like today?

[the_beaver]

[yangtheman]

I just arrived in Korea last week and I had to use subway to go to the immigration office in Seoul. Unfortunately I had to bring my son as well. And...... let me tell you, it's really hard to travel with a toddler on subway. No space for stroller. I brought my Kelty KIDS backpack carrier, but when he was sleepy I had to hold him...., and he weighs 28 lbs.! When you travel with a toddler, it's not a picnic. I NEED A CAR..... Soon..... Very soon.....

[deeluvskitties]

yeahh - i love it. i love people hawking the strangest things - like qtips. te only thing i don't like is having to walk sooo far to the ajoining station at transfer staions. but at least im getting some exercice!

[skinhead]

[weatherman]

[mindmetoo]

It is a great system. It's cheap compared to Japan or North America. It goes all over the city, unlike Toronto's subway. It's clean and modern (especially lines 5 - 8 ). You don't have to wait long for another train (I have to laugh at Koreans who run their ash off to make a train when there's another one 5 minutes later and they don't have risk tripping down the stairs and breaking their teeth). You rarely experience a delay (unlike Toronto's system). It's the better way.

The only down side is if you live in northern seoul and want to travel across the top of seoul, you're in some trouble. You have to travel a V-pattern.

[Mashimaro]

Almost everything i need is within 5 minutes walk I might use it once a week on average to meet friends. It is convenient, but the stations are suffocatingly hot in summer, and I don't like the oppressive atmosphere. Sometimes i want to start a conversation with the person sitting next to me but the morgue like atmosphere is not that conducive to it (plus I don't want every ajoshi and ajumma listening in to the foreigner trying to speak korean)

[articulate_ink]

Does anyone know what the status is? Supposedly a light metro line was, or is, being built between Gimhae and Busan. I've read that Bombardier was under consideration to supply the trains, and that there will be an airport station. Has construction begun?

Subways are a good thing. New York's is also oppressive in the summer but where would the city be without it? Seattle's is finally officially under construction. I'll be long gone by the time it commences operation, but it's nice to know this place is catching up with the rest of the metropolitan world.

[MixtecaMike]

Seoul metro is great, I've been on it quite a few times this week and compared to Mexico City metro it's real VIP service.

Even at rush hour people let you get to the doorway, people let most of the off passengers off before getting on, they seem to run on time and there are no unexplained 15 minute gaps followed by empty trains that don't stop, a special piece of Mexico City metro nastiness to bug commuters.

And it's funny to watch everyone swapping carriages to avoid the drunk guy late at night.

[canukteacher]

One of the few things I can say I REALLY LIKE about Seoul. I wish it ran longer hours.

CT

[Paji eh Wong]

When I left Bangkok last year, they were about to open a subway there. This in a town where the rainy season turned my street into a pond that went up to my mid calf. I wonder how that would work?

[mindmetoo]