{"id":4311,"date":"2017-12-28T16:23:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2017-12-28T16:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T00:23:35","slug":"seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-koreascape-the-driverless-ad-free-cultural-ui-sinseol-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4311","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Urbanism on TBS eFM&#8217;s Koreascape: the Driverless, Ad-Free, &#8220;Cultural&#8221; Ui-Sinseol Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4312\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ui-Sinseol-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ui-Sinseol-line.jpg 800w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ui-Sinseol-line-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ui-Sinseol-line-768x655.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/tbsefm.seoul.kr\/efm\/koreaScape\/introduction.jsp\">Koreascape<\/a><\/em> on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This time we ride the brand new Ui-Sinseol Light Rapid Transit (or Ui LRT), Korea&#8217;s very first driverless light-rail subway. Running from the center of the city out to Bukhansan on its northeastern edge, the line stops at thirteen stations, many of them designed as gallery spaces to display artwork old and new. None of it has to compete with ads for rider attention since, except for announcements of cultural events, the line doesn&#8217;t have any ads.\u00a0Even these early months of operation have also already seen it equipped with machines where riders can check out and return library books, bowls full of poetry (one poem per person, please), and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/375947024&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for further explorations of Seoul\u2019s architecture, infrastructure, and other parts of the built environment. You can hear our previous segments <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/colin-marshall-26\/sets\/seoul-urbanism-on-tbs-efms-1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month\u00a0I join\u00a0Kurt Achin, host of\u00a0Koreascape on Seoul\u2019s English-language radio station TBS eFM, for\u00a0an exploration of one of Seoul\u2019s urban spaces. This time we ride the brand new Ui-Sinseol Light Rapid Transit (or Ui LRT), Korea&#8217;s very first driverless light-rail subway. Running from the center of the city out to Bukhansan on its northeastern edge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,77,41,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-koreascape","category-radio","category-seoul","category-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4313,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions\/4313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}