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[Harpeau]

Found this Seoul subway map that wil give you distances and how long it takes to get from one place to another. Very informative!
Harpeau

Simply click on English and then cyberstation map

http://www.smrt.co.kr/

[Harpeau]

Is there a cyber map similar to this one for Pusan? This is the best map in the world!!

Harpeau

[mack the knife]

Too bad you need BINOCULARS to read the damn thing...

[katydid]

Hey...
Seoul
Metropolitan
Rapid
Transit

How could something so cool give itself such an unflattering acronym?
What does this mean if we ride on the SMRT trains?
TMKATM, have you noticed this before??


WELL?

[Industrial Strength]

Hey katydid, you might not want to call them SMRT Trains. I live in the Czech Republic, and smrt means death.

I doubt there's a connection though.

[katydid]

REALLY? That's very interesting. So in Czech, SMRT = death.

On the Dave's board SMRT = Andie.

[Industrial Strength]

Really really.
IS

[jaebea]

That map is very very cool.

I came across a similar one, but for above ground Seoul. Not as neat, but a nice way to look at a Seoul map.

http://english.metro.seoul.kr/

LHS column, click on "New Seoul Map"

You can pan, zoom around, get pretty close.

I enjoyed playing around with it, and you really get a good idea of the size of the bloody city. :)

jae.

[Cthulhu]

[hojucandy]

speaking a little loosely, in sanskrit smrt would be a sort of past passive participle of the verb root "smr (to remember) and would mean "remembered"

[jpal75]

Thanx for the link it's helpful and interesting.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I'm a little p*ssed at the false claim that we can "find out when trains depart and arrive at each station." When you look at the table, all it shows you is when the first and last trains come.

Then again, I guess "every couple of minutes or so" sums it up quite well anyways.

Sparkles*_*

[katydid]

[Harpeau]

Usually you can stand on a platform, make a note when a train arrives at a certain station and they will usually arrive at the station the next day at the same time (depending on which line you're on). Try it out!

Cheers,
Harpeau

[Holyjoe]

You can find out some pretty useless statistical information from that site too.

Like the 3 busiest stations on the entire network:

Gangnam - 177,406 passengers per day
Samseong - 154,187 passengers per day
Jamsil - 141,000 passengers per day

Also the pink line (line only uses 6 cars per train, the others use 10.

Wow