Foreign tourists will not be able to access areas on the top of Namsan via taxi from next month, Seoul City Hall said Monday. Instead they will have to take shuttles (Hyundai- Hankook Fibre's creaion: electric buses enroute to Namsan) or walk.
City officials say that the ban is also aimed at protecting foreign tourists from cabbies who try to overcharge them, as well as to abolish “reverse discrimination.” The city has banned the passage of vehicles on the mountain to preserve nature and offer visitors a more agreeable environment for walking. People are obliged to walk, take a cable car, or ride a shuttle bus up the parkway leading to the main tower.
During an intensive crackdown for the last two weeks, the city detected 15 cases where taxi drivers took advantage of the foreign passengers’ unfamiliarity with Korea’s traffic system. An official told“For example, a driver carrying four passengers charged 10,000 won to each of them, totaling 40,000 won, while the original fare might have been about 6,000 won if charged by the meter.” Read the entire story HERE at Korea Times.
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