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wylies99
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 Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:17 am Post subject: More Reserved Seating on Subways |
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02-23-2009 19:11
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/02/117_40107.html
More Reserved Seating on Subways
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
Seoul subways will have more reserved seats from March.
Seoul Metro, which runs subway lines 1-4, said Monday it will designate seven more seats for pregnant women, mothers with children and the disabled in each passenger car of subway lines 2-4 from March 1 next to current seats for the aged, with pictograms symbolizing the pregnant, the disabled and mothers with children. Lower hand straps will also be installed. Currently, each train has 12 seats reserved for the elderly out of 54 seats in each subway car.
The seats will be different from current reserved ones for the elderly. ``Instead of leaving the reserved seats for the elderly vacant all the time, other passengers may use the seats but must surrender them to those in need,'' a Seoul Metro official said.
Seoul Metro has been test-operating the special seats in trains on subway line No. 1 since December 2007. According to its survey, 63 percent of 4,286 participants supported the test-operation of the seats and 94 percent of supporters were in favor of expanding the designated seats to other subway lines.
However, the expansion might draw objections from younger passengers. Seoul Metro emphasizes it is not expanding seating for the aged.
``We designated the special seats because it's not easy for the disabled or the pregnant to occupy the seats for the elderly,'' Kim Myung-ran of Seoul Metro said. ``These seats are the seats of concession and care for those who need them.''
The subway operator will promote the new seating arrangement through its Web site, posters and train announcements.
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Savant
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:31 am Post subject: Re: More Reserved Seating on Subways |
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| ''We designated the special seats because it's not easy for the disabled or the pregnant to occupy the seats for the elderly,'' Kim Myung-ran of Seoul Metro said. ``These seats are the seats of concession and care for those who need them.'' |
Takes a brave person to tell an adjumma to leave her seat for anyone.
They take no prisoners when they eye an available subway seat. Blink and it's gone. |
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wylies99
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| Stupid question- is this "reserved seats" policy a custom or the law? I see Korean kidsand drunks sitting in those seats all of the time. Is there any real enforcement of this policy? |
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toonchoon
Joined: 06 Feb 2009
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:58 am Post subject: Re: More Reserved Seating on Subways |
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Takes a brave person to tell an adjumma to leave her seat for anyone.
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even for pregnant, expecting mothers. these old bi###es have no respect for anybody and anything. that's why when they walk into me cos they aren't looking, and start saying something, i just wave my index finger side to side, and say "oh no you didn't". |
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yeoja
Joined: 27 Nov 2008
Location: Down south in South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| wylies99 wrote: |
| Stupid question- is this "reserved seats" policy a custom or the law? I see Korean kidsand drunks sitting in those seats all of the time. Is there any real enforcement of this policy? |
From what I know, there is no law forbidding anyone that is not a '노약자(The elderly, the handicapped or pregnant women)' from sitting in those seats. Most non-노약자 leave them alone out of respect.
If you see kids there, it depends on the kid. If they're pretty young, they're likely to be a little spoilt or a little short of exercise (if you get my drift) and their mums probably sent them there to sit. If they're middle school or older and they're sitting down when a 노약자 is standing in front of them...? Well, I've never seen that happen before in my nearly 7 years here. Unless it's late enough in the evening and the seats are empty anyway, in which case they sit down to rest a bit.
Drunken ajosshis.. since when do laws apply to them? Sit and sleep any old where..  |
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