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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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 Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 3:46 pm Post subject: Seoul bus search |
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Is there a Korean site where you can search for bus routes and transfers?
Like this one: http://bus.congnamul.com/SeoulRouteWebApp/view_english/map.jsp ... except up-to-date and not completely useless? Every time I look for a route it tells me to take a bus that I know doesn't exist any more, and it doesn't have info on any of the new routes. |
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bikefast
Joined: 04 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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| If there's a good one out there, I've not found it. |
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hwarangi
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| it works better in Korean |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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I've never had an issue with that site. Every bus it has told me to take exists. The only issue I have is that it doesn't include local bus routes for cities attached to seoul.
For example I went to the hockey game and it listed 1 bus to go there 4425. It was right, but when I got to the stop I found out that Anyang had like 8 different routes all going along the same road, so I took one of those. If anyone has a site (or sites) that list the various bus services for different cities that would be handy. |
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joeyjoejoe
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| joeyjoejoe wrote: |
| http://traffic.visitkorea.or.kr/lang/en/Bus/ |
That's not bad, but you need to know the names of the stops you're going to.. you can guess by the area, but if you choose the wrong stop, it might lead you astray. I like being able to look at a map, and say "this spot to this spot" |
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AgDragon01
Joined: 13 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| you could always call information and have someone figure it out for you. They have an English option. 02 1330 |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| joeyjoejoe wrote: |
| http://traffic.visitkorea.or.kr/lang/en/Bus/ |
I'd use that but... it is not up-to-date either!
I can read Korean well enough to navigate this sort of website in Korean, and I assume the Korean ones would be kept up better than these ones. No one knows anything?
crossmr, it's a big problem when going anywhere from the Itaewon area. The stop closest to my house is served by 3 buses - 405, 421, and 0213. They are ALL NEW. None of them are on the map! If I use the map, it tells me to take 0014, 0015, or 0016, which no longer exist.
There's no Korean map that works the same way? Really? |
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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Just put in this much of the link and it gives you the Korean map.
http://www.congnamul.com/
The English map accuracy is down to about 75% for me. But I haven't really used the Korean version much. can you check and see if it has your Itaewon buses correct?
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oops my bad, that map is fir driving directions.
Somewhere in there is the Korean version of the bus map |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| Drew345 wrote: |
Just put in this much of the link and it gives you the Korean map.
http://www.congnamul.com/
The English map accuracy is down to about 75% for me. But I haven't really used the Korean version much. can you check and see if it has your Itaewon buses correct?
Edit:
oops my bad, that map is fir driving directions.
Somewhere in there is the Korean version of the bus map |
Korean driving map: Updated, with correct buses!
Korean bus map: Still has the old buses.  You can find it here: http://bus.congnamul.com/SeoulRouteWebApp/view/MapBrowser.jsp
Well darn. |
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qwerty
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I believe that Congnamul site lists MULTIPLE routes. So you scroll down and pick a better route.
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You could go to the actual bus stop, see the buses that are listed and get an idea of where they go. |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
I believe that Congnamul site lists MULTIPLE routes. So you scroll down and pick a better route.
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You could go to the actual bus stop, see the buses that are listed and get an idea of where they go. |
If you knew where the stop names are, that is great. A lot of stop names are just names of apartment buildings, banks, etc. That doesn't remotely tell you where they go. They do sometimes have names of subway stations, but unless you're going to a subway station it isn't overly helpful to you.
Congnamul is great for the multiple routes, sometimes daum gives horrible routes. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
| I believe that Congnamul site lists MULTIPLE routes. So you scroll down and pick a better route. |
Yes, but since ALL the buses have changed in the last few months, EVERY route is unworkable. I wanted to go to Gwanghwamun, and EVERY route involved a bus that isn't running any more.
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You could go to the actual bus stop, see the buses that are listed and get an idea of where they go. |
This is what I have been doing. It's not terribly effective, mainly because I usually need to transfer and the bus stop doesn't have information on that. |
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