Jeonjangyeon Subway Boarding Protest... End of Non-Stop Passage at Samgakji Station

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[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] The no-stop passage on Seoul Subway Line 4, implemented due to the boarding protest by the National Solidarity for the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Jeonjangyeon), has ended.

Seoul Metro announced that the no-stop passage on the upper track of Samgakji Station (towards Sookdaeipgu) on Subway Line 4, which started at 4:24 PM on the 20th, ended around 5:08 PM. Earlier, at Samgakji Station, two members including Jeonjangyeon representative Park Kyung-seok, who were conducting a subway boarding protest from 3:53 PM, lay down at the train doors, causing train operations to halt for 30 minutes. Seoul Metro judged that such subway operation disruptions would continue and implemented the no-stop passage starting at 4:24 PM.

Jeonjangyeon held a rally at the Seoul Station platform of Line 4 from 9 AM that day to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Oido Station lift fall accident. Then, about 30 activists attempted to board the subway 16 times from platform 4-4 towards Sookdaeipgu around 10:20 AM, but were blocked by Seoul Metro officials. In addition to Seoul Station, Jeonjangyeon conducted publicity campaigns demanding the guarantee of mobility rights for persons with disabilities at Oido Station at 8 AM and Yongsan Station at 10 AM.

The subway boarding protest that day was due to the failure of a meeting between Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon and Jeonjangyeon. A private joint meeting between Mayor Oh and disability organizations was scheduled the previous day, but was canceled after Jeonjangyeon demanded a one-on-one meeting and did not attend. Jeonjangyeon issued a statement expressing regret over the failed meeting and proposed "a public dialogue session for social consensus" to Mayor Oh.

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