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I was so confused of the flow of writing and one sentence made me understand what just happened. "I grew up in Seoul in the 1990s before coming to the United States, so I missed all of Line 9’s construction and operations." The media in South Korea have criticized any privatization of public service for so long time. Trust me I have lived in this country more than 25 years. Even though author asserted that "I will list all sourcing as best as I can, all from media outlets in South Korea (of both left and right political leanings) I have vetted and determined as legitimate." Yes, the sources of articles are from both left and right leaning but the thesis of this post is villifing semi-privatization of Line 9. To me, the cause of Line 9 chaos is not from privatization but from the intervention of political campaign in this problem. Conservatively expected passenger numbers can go wrong, but they must not make mistakes on back-up plans, and they just did make mistakes on purpose for the sake of winning election.

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so the guy never rode line9 and is writing this article... hmm-teresting...

And the article mentions "it's not economically feasible to add more cabinets due to the extra construction work required..."

...but the line9 stations are actually built to accommodate 8 cabinets (instead of current 6), and there are even screen-doors ready for those cabinets...