Mayor of Seoul immediately apologizes for bus confusion in Myeongdong, residents' reactions are ``liked'' and ``refreshing''

Late on the evening of the 6th, Mayor Oh Sehun of Seoul, South Korea, posted an apology video on his Facebook page along with the caption, ``We are very sorry for the chaos that caused the bus in Myeong-dong.''
Mayor Oh said in the video, ``It's around 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 6th, and this is Myeongdong Station,'' and added, ``I want to tell you that I'm sorry. We have to work more carefully.''
However, we were unable to do so, so we had to try something new in the cold winter, resulting in longer waiting times and inconvenience to many people. I'm sorry," he apologized.
On the 27th of last month, Seoul installed a facility displaying route numbers at bus stops near Myeong-dong Station.
The idea was to allow passengers to line up to board the train, but contrary to expectations, traffic jams became more intense and had the opposite effect.
Citizens were dissatisfied with the transit time, which normally took 10 minutes, to take up to an hour.
Even traffic in surrounding areas was paralyzed. On the same day that Mayor Oh personally visited the site, it happened to snow, and when he saw even more serious traffic jams, he confirmed the problem and apologized, and the citizens responded positively in the comments.
They are responding. Mayor Oh said in the video, ``Recently, there have been a lot of people arriving to work from Gyeonggi-do, and when we tried to accept routes coming into Seoul as requested, the capacity was slightly exceeded.
As a result, the area became extremely congested, with about 550 buses coming in between 5pm and 9pm during rush hour.''
Mayor Oh said, ``Originally, people were riding the bus while running back and forth, but in order to improve this,
Along the way, we erected pillars and marked them with bus numbers. The bus number written at the bottom is written at the top to make it easier to see, so a line will form there and you will only come to the front of that line to get on, so the bus in front of you will not depart.
"There was a traffic jam where buses were lined up behind us." "So what normally took 10 minutes to get there now took an hour, and instead of taking 5 minutes to get there, we now had to wait 30 minutes at a time.
This really caused a lot of inconvenience. I am truly sorry," he apologized again. By the end of January, the city of Seoul has canceled the operation of newly installed bus route display boards and replaced them on-site.
The plan is to deploy internal staff to operate the facility. The stopping locations of some regional buses will be changed. Mayor Oh said, ``Referring to that, we will restore the former system to its original state by the end of this month, and provide public assistance for about a month.''
We will try to improve as much as possible by receiving as many opinions as possible. I'm looking forward to hearing a lot of good opinions," he concluded.