Talk:Seoul Metropolitan Subway

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[edit] Page Layout

For some reason no one knows I am starting on making the pages for each line bigger and better. Any ideas? 'ello? Cheers. Nesnad 17:40, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The new construction section is becoming a bit long (sorry about that). Maybe the larger projects such as line 9 and the Shin Bundang Line should have their own pages? --JackSeoul 11:29, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
Seems fine to me. sikander 17:18, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
Went ahead and rearranged it and made new pages for Line 9 and the Shin Bundang Line projects. --JackSeoul 15:31, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

I made some changes to Omokgyo Station, see the diff. I think that having a box in every station article with its official hangeul name, its official Hanja name and its official English name (which often enough is not a mere romanization) is much more useful and appropriate than having the box display two romanisations of only the Korean name plus "역".

If that sounds good to you, and if you have too much time at hand, you can change all station articles accordingly, using the SMRT's information pages such as this one for Omokgyo – use the 역검색 button (top of page) to find other stations' pages.

If you disagree, just revert me.—Wikipeditor 13:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jungang Line?

Is there now a Jungang Line in the Seoul subway system? If so, it needs its own article; Jungang Line is about a very different stretch of track. -- Visviva 09:21, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

For the yongsan-dokso section. in Korean wikipedia. we don't have conclusion. we discuss on this section that "this page should separate" Vs. "It must incluse in Line 1". in truth, we don't have exact nothon about "what is line 1 and what is line 1's content" at now. so, I suggest don't make about 'jungang line' as of yongsan-dukso section. - Ellif 06:16, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about this page's name

Please see the m:User talk:Galadrien. - Ellif 06:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Korea Metropolitan Subway would be a misleading article name as Korea has subway in cities other than Seoul. It is much easier for a foreigner, who does not know that the Korean literal translation of the subway system, to find this article when searching for seoul's subway system. sikander 18:18, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
But because of Its subways go with 2 cityes and 1 province, it is NOT subway of SEOUL, but metropolitan subway of korea, I think. If like the Busan Subway or Gwangju Subway, I don't insist this way.- Ellif 03:31, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
And, Here in Korea, other subways Don't have name of Metropolitan Subway. And, so how you'll explain about Incheon Subway in KMS? - Ellif 01:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
I think the page was originally named Seoul Metropolitan Subway because the company's website calls it Seoul Metro ( Metro being short for Metropolitan.. meaning a large population consisting of a city and suburban areas ). Personally I don't think it should be renamed to Korean Metropolitan Subway because Seoul is not Korea... Seoul is a city in Korea. Maybe the Incheon Subway article is called Incheon Subway only because that subway does not go to the surrounding suburban areas ? In any case, I don't think this is such a major issue. If you want, you can add to the article some information about what the subway system is called in Seoul and how Korean people refer to the subway. Have a good day. sikander 05:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Third Rail or Overhead Wires?

How is SMRT elevtrified?

Third rail?

Overhead lines... I'd like to include this information but I don't know where. There is some more information on Seoul Subway systems here: [1] and [2]

[edit] Blue Line Terminology

Technically, there are 2 blue lines, #1 dark blue and #4 light blue. However, it appears that #4 is the official blue line per a recent edit. Any detail?? Georgia guy 13:45, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organization

This article is not organized very well. Is there a way we can make the article better laid out without compromising the quality of the article? — † Webdinger BLAH | SZ 03:07, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Future expansion maps under "History"

The two maps added by Sh1900 are show various planned or proposed expansion of the Seoul subway along with potential routes and station names. Some of routes they show are 5-10 years from completion. There's no explanation as to what they represent or why they're there. I am removing them. JackSeoul 02:55, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incheon Line

Since this is the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, not the Seoul Subway, I think it can be assumed that it covers the subway lines in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, so I propose that the Incheon Line (I'm not sure why they call it Incheon Line 1, but they do!) be included in this article and its associated template. JPBarrass 13:08, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

It's called Incheon Subway Line 1 because Line 2 is under construction. The offical maps etc refer to it as line 1. I aree that it should be listed here. It's one system, same ticketing is used, and it appears on the official maps such as here.JackSeoul 08:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] image overload

Articles are not mere galleries and this article is quickly becoming that. Comparing this [3] version and this current version [4]. I've got to say I much prefer the earlier version. Each station has its own article, there is no reason to have a gallery of images for each station in the main article. And this extremely large image down the side does horrible things to the formatting.--Crossmr (talk) 05:00, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main Image

Just comparing the previous main image, Image:Seoul_Subway_linemap_en.pngand the new one Image:Seoulsubway.jpg. I don't have anything against updating the image, however it should be as legible as the previous one. This new one is packed together more and at a smaller resolution. This leaves a few station names difficult to read. Would it be possible to get this image at a higher resolution.--Crossmr (talk) 05:14, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LRT

To be clear, what is meant by a new LRT line is developing? According to this article there are seven LRT lines in Seoul and 10 in Gyeonggi-do that are in the planning stages. The article specifies EverLine as one of these LRT lines. Is it safe to assume that all these other lines are separate? In Singapore there is the MRT and the LRT and they are integrated but very different. I'm going to move forward under the assumption that these lines are separate and that a new subsection on this page or a new stand alone page should be started. Please commentDaronDierkes (talk) 09:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)