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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:08 pm Post subject: Big line 1 subway breakdown? |
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| Nothing moving for a long time at Chunyangni..... lots of chatter on the speaker. Throngs of people waiting.... |
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cheolsu
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Yonhap is reporting that a train derailed at Jongno-5-ga about 40 minutes ago. |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Wow.... how does that happen?
Things are moving again but cars are too packed to accept people. Old people behind me got smashed and couldn't breathe, so I had to kindly yet forcefully push some people out who refused to stop trying. |
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cheolsu
Joined: 16 Jan 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know enough Korean to understand how it happened, but here's the article:
http://t.co/RJXujvRr |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Swampfox10mm wrote: |
| Wow.... how does that happen? |
Pipe burst and frozen tracks would be my guess. |
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saram_
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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I'm glad I missed all of that nonsense when I was at Seoul Station earlier.
*Edit*
Wow, I should say, I'm glad I took a taxi instead of the train.
Also, This morning at Suwon Station, all of the electronic ticket machines were busted. It couldn't be THAT cold. |
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YTMND
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
Location: You're the man now dog!!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| all of the electronic ticket machines were busted |
Maybe an electrical outage after things warmed up. It's quite possible the damage was done earlier in January, and now water is getting through newly made cracks. I have never seen all ticket machines stop working. It's always just one or maybe two being worked on. |
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Drew10
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 12:58 am Post subject: |
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| all of the electronic ticket machines were busted |
Maybe an electrical outage after things warmed up. It's quite possible the damage was done earlier in January, and now water is getting through newly made cracks. I have never seen all ticket machines stop working. It's always just one or maybe two being worked on. |
It definitely wasn't an outage. The machines were all running, but the screens just had lines of color running through them and pieces of paper taped over them with a message in Korean.
My Korean is on the low low beginner side so I had no idea what the problem was. I just know I had to wait in a long line to get my ticket to Seoul Station.
This wasn't the metro lines, so I can't tell you how bad it was in that part of the station. |
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