The train honor code
As far as I can tell, the trains are run on the honor system. There is not a single person that asks you to see your ticket to see if you've paid correctly.
You buy the ticket yourself. Then you board the train when it comes by. Someone on staff walks by in the train but they do not ask for anything. If you decide to change destinations you tell that person that you want to change, and they will come tell you how much more to pay. If you decide not to tell them, you just don't pay and you still get off wherever you want. It's just that easy to cheat.
Once you get to your destination, you just get off and then leave through the front door. You could literally decide to steal $60 and not purchase the KTX ticket that takes you from Seoul to Busan, and nobody would know. I can't imagine all these Koreans all being completely honest like that but yet, the country can afford all this public transportation, so maybe there is some decency in this world.
You buy the ticket yourself. Then you board the train when it comes by. Someone on staff walks by in the train but they do not ask for anything. If you decide to change destinations you tell that person that you want to change, and they will come tell you how much more to pay. If you decide not to tell them, you just don't pay and you still get off wherever you want. It's just that easy to cheat.
Once you get to your destination, you just get off and then leave through the front door. You could literally decide to steal $60 and not purchase the KTX ticket that takes you from Seoul to Busan, and nobody would know. I can't imagine all these Koreans all being completely honest like that but yet, the country can afford all this public transportation, so maybe there is some decency in this world.
posted by Jimmy at
12:41 PM
2 Comments:
wow. its super strict in japan, and everything is monitored by computers and kiosks you have to go through that scan your ticket...
The subway in Seoul is like that, but the train system around the country itself is not. I don't think it's a matter of modernization, unless they just simply ran out of money for some reason, because in the stations they have tons of automated ticket selling machines that take your credit card. It's very sophisticated.
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