Transport

The Seoul Subway system is a huge system of trains (above and below ground).  It is an inexpensive way to get around all of Seoul proper as well as many of the outlying communities (we have ridden it an hour out of town to Osan.  On the train it took 90 minutes).  The subway lines intersect making transferring easy, although sometimes the walk is long.



Here the boys are at a transfer station.

The subway is clean and safe.  There are over 14 million CCTV cameras in Seoul.  That is more than one per person in the city!  There are cameras in the stations and on the subways.  The boys and I have been all over the city on the train without any problems. 

We purchased T-money cards and loaded them up with Won.  Now we just swipe our cards at the entrance and off we go.  When we run out of money we just recharge the car at the Reloading stations located at every subway stop.



Reloading machine, and it can be in English.

The signage and digital information is in Korean and Romanized letters.  It makes it easy to know where to go.  The kids like to watch the commercials (about subway maintenance, cleaning, and etiquette) on the monitors on and off the trains.  The information is up to date and shows where the trains are on the track so you can gage how long the wait is for the next train.