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October 31, 2007
Women-only subway cars in 2008
SEOUL (Reuters) - The subway corporations serving South Korea's capital will introduce women-only cars next year to make rides more comfortable and free of groping male hands, a subway official said on Wednesday.
"Sexual crimes happen frequently when the cars are packed and people are pressed against each other," the subway official said.
Nearly half the crimes reported on the city's eight subway lines are sexual in nature, with many taking place on two lines that serve university and office districts, lawmaker Lee Jai-chang said in parliament on Monday.
The Seoul subway network moves 6.1 million people a day and, as in Tokyo, uniformed attendants are on hand at rush hour pushing passengers into packed carriages.
Several Tokyo train lines have tried women-only carriages to prevent groping.
Posted by ronnie at October 31, 2007 01:21 PM