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by TillE 728 days ago
Surely not the most popular language among tourists in South Korea, who would be mostly from Japan, China, etc.
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that’s a fair point. in that case, why not support chinese, japanese, etc?

my point is it seems like good business sense. strange they haven’t done this.

The subway station notification is spoken in Korean and English.
The common language most often used when people from Japan, China, or South Korea visit each other’s countries is English. All three groups of people are more likely to know English than either of the other two languages. The same can be said for the remaining group that doesn’t include people from those three countries.