Comment Re:Having Lived In Korea (Score 1) 309
Which Korea did you live in? I live in Korea now and use the subway systems to commute to work/school every day. The average subway car can be broken down like this:
10% (80% of seated passengers) : People sleeping or pretending to sleep so they dont have to get up for the grandmother/grandfather standing in front of them
10%: texting (nothing amazing there)
10-20%: watching a video on a PMP
remainder: staring vacantly into space/recovering from the previous night's drinking binge.
These are averages, YMMV.
almost no one uses the 'web' on these trains, and almost anytime that i use the 'web' (more like wap than www) functions on my phone any koreans around me will freak out and tell me to be careful cos its so expensive. hell, i even have people request that i dont send them text messages above a certain character limit, cos then it defaults to MMS, which costs money to receive.
this will change over time as the poorly named 'wibro' takes hold.
10% (80% of seated passengers) : People sleeping or pretending to sleep so they dont have to get up for the grandmother/grandfather standing in front of them
10%: texting (nothing amazing there)
10-20%: watching a video on a PMP
remainder: staring vacantly into space/recovering from the previous night's drinking binge.
These are averages, YMMV.
almost no one uses the 'web' on these trains, and almost anytime that i use the 'web' (more like wap than www) functions on my phone any koreans around me will freak out and tell me to be careful cos its so expensive. hell, i even have people request that i dont send them text messages above a certain character limit, cos then it defaults to MMS, which costs money to receive.
this will change over time as the poorly named 'wibro' takes hold.
