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Seniors' free subway rides snowball financial burden for Seoul, Busan
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Seniors' free subway rides snowball financial burden for Seoul, Busan
Seoul and Busan are facing mounting financial pressure from providing free subway rides to designated groups, raising concerns about the long-term sustainability of local governments' operation of the critical public transit system. The service, introduced in 1984 for people aged 65 or older, has now accumulated losses worth hundreds of billions of won for subway operators. While the ministries responsible for the laws underpinning the program h…
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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