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Permalink Reply by Youna Kim on July 26, 2010 at 2:16pm

Interesting. #6 and #8 is duplicate, #3 & #9 is somewhat contradictory. I would add "Please don't crowd the entrance unless you're taking off" "If you can not help being in that area, step out to make way for people taking off"

Another interesting thing about the metro these days - campaigning walking on your right instead of left. When I was growing up in Seoul, it was a spoken rule to walk on the left to prevent bumping into people coming from the other direction. But when I moved to overseas I started bumping into people who walked on the right. Then I realized that my 29 something years of training caused this. Now that I am training myself to walk on my right in Seoul, I'm bumping into people who were trained all their lives to walk on the left. So, is this a good campaign or not?

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Permalink Reply by Dom LaVigne on July 26, 2010 at 2:21pm

I wonder whether they got this from Singapore. When I first moved there in 2002, there was a "national debate" happening about why people stood on the left side of the escalators and blocked others. This grew and grew, and pretty soon an unofficial policy and subsequent PR campaign came out, instructing people that on all escalators (everywhere) they had to stand left and pass on the right.

I got so used to it, that I would unconsciously stand on the left side of escalators when in other countries (I still do...) So if you see people doing that in Korea or elsewhere in Asia, good chance that they could be from Singapore...

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Permalink Reply by Steven S. Bammel on July 26, 2010 at 10:44pm

In addition to moving everyone to to the right, another social change they're trying to achieve on the Seoul Metro is to have everyone just stand on the escalators and not move.

It used to be that slow-movers were supposed to stand on the right, leaving an aisle on the left side of the escalators for those would wanted to walk up or down faster. I guess a few too many people got bumped and fell, or something.

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Permalink Reply by vince rubino on July 27, 2010 at 10:23am

I heard they wanted people to stop walking on the escalators because the force of many people marching on them simultaneously during rush hour (mostly all on the right side) while they're moving twists and destroys their drive belts. This is possibly why we see so many "dead" escalators in the subway system.

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Permalink Reply by Youna Kim on July 27, 2010 at 12:32pm

This makes more sense. Actually the speed of escalators at the Seoul Metro is very slow, and this doesn't reflect the temperament of most Korean citizens who run not to miss the upcoming train while transferring. The solution to this may be faster escalators - like those at Bangkok metro. The escalators there are almost 5 times as fast as the one in Seoul. Of course, even with this, there still will be people who will walk up the escalator instead of standing on it.

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Permalink Reply by vince rubino on July 27, 2010 at 10:32am

I really appreciated the public transportation courtesy awareness campaign in Singapore I saw last December that features life size images of local comedians on the train doors with text bubbles announcing in big letters something to the effect of "Please step back and let me get off before you board the train!" No one can miss this message and it's very effective. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Courtesy_Campaign_(Singapore)

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Permalink Reply by Dom LaVigne on July 27, 2010 at 10:37am

Someone sent me one last night, which was a recent subway ad as part of a campaign to (1) encourage environmental friendliness (i.e., no littering), as there have been difficulties recently with people littering more, and (2) a not-so-subtle message aimed at people who pick their noses in public.

The attached photo is not much of an exaggeration from what you will see (not often, but certainly frequently enough) on the streets of Southeast Asia. Similar problem in Korea?

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Permalink Reply by Dom LaVigne on July 27, 2010 at 10:38am

Of course as I'm looking at this again, I wonder whether the Cartier ad placement was necessarily really bad (or really good), depending on whether it garnered the kind of potential-customer attention they were seeking...

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Permalink Reply by vince rubino on July 28, 2010 at 9:23am

Hilarious! Reminds of the old saying "You can pick your nose and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' nose"

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Permalink Reply by William Sisson on July 26, 2010 at 6:09pm

I would also add that texting messages, reading the newspaper, watching TV and playing games should not be done while walking up or down the stairs or at the entrance or exit gates while in the middle of morning or evening rush hours :(

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Permalink Reply by Jure Grant Majnaric on February 28, 2011 at 10:27pm

Tip 3, 8, and 9 are funny. Line up in a bunch, right in front of the door, yet make room for the ones coming off first!  I love it and love living here and the one reason for that is that I get a kick out of so many things on a daily basis.

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