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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/10/117_33507.html

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

A 50-year-old woman was killed in an accident Tuesday night on the platform of Hwagok Subway Station on line 5. The woman became stuck between a moving train and a protecting screen door, which was under construction.

She seemed drunk with tottering steps, while talking on the phone, and managed to get off the subway train but became stuck in a screen door as the train departed, a rescue team said, citing CCTV footage and witnesses

The station has been setting up a screen door on the platform to prevent possible accidents and suicide attempts. But it is not complete.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to complete the construction of screen doors at all the subway stations by next year. Out of the total 265 stations, only 40 stations have completed construction with 90 stations underway.

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[sharkey]

subway doors are scary, my friend got caught between 2 in rome, i thought she was a goner.

[Whirlwind]

The lesson: Don't drink

[M-su]

She got stuck and......then what.......? How did she go??

[drunkenfud]

Caught between the "anti suicide" doors and the train doors? That could be nasty!

[caniff]

[Adventurer]

I think this very tragic. When you are very drunk and talking on the phone you don't expect this to happen, I suppose. She got off it seems and didn't get off properly, so it seems as the train was leaving she got hit bad. That's rather awful. I am not sure you can blame the subway people.

[viipuri]

Saw something similar today that got me wondering if such deaths could happen - two 20-something guys were sitting and talking and then realised that our train had long been sitting at their intended station, so they grabbed their bags and jumped out as both sets of doors were closing - the first got jammed but the doors released no problems...fortunately...

Where the public is at constant risk from incomplete construction, they should really be working on one station at a time, and having it completed ASAP before moving on and working on the next that way they could function fully from the start...better than having 90 different construction sites adding further unnecessary risk...

[girlcabbie]

This is scary.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Not that I am saying she deserved to die, but people need to stop talking on their phones, watching DMB and playing hand-held games whilst exiting the carriages and walking through stations. These idiots are a total menace, not to mention a danger and slow up those who are in a hurry.

[ardis]

Subway doors have always freaked me out. At home, I saw people get caught in them during rush hour almost every day and it was kind of horrifying. In Korea, it's the same thing. A few weeks ago, some girl got her arm caught and let out some blood-curdling screams as she tried to get herself loose. Some guys helped pull her in and she wasn't injured, but it was still freaky.

[PeteJB]

The doors here don't scare me that much as they are soft closing. In the UK, at least in the Southern networks, the trains (not sure about the subway) have these really aggressive sounding doors. The alarm sounds, then WHAM. The sound of the doors clapping together is warning enough that getting caught in them would be a bitch.

[jdog2050]

[Sapa]

Is there not some sort of sensor in the doors or something? I have seen it plenty of times where people have got half caught or there bag is in the door or something, but doors just open back up.

But then I guess if there were automatic sensors that just opened up everytime someone was half in or out, every Tom, Dick and Harry would be jumping in and the trains would never leave.

[Draz]

I got my arm stuck in the subway door once. It took FOREVER for it to open back up, like ten seconds. I thought it would be like, you know, a normal automatic door where if it hits something it instantly stops and reverses but noooooo. No automatic sensors here! I think the driver has to look at his control panel and notice that a door isn't closed all the way, then manually rescue you. Won't be doing that again. Left a pretty nasty bruise.