Orunaerim guide: how to read lift and escalator status

What you see

For each Seoul subway station, where the elevators, escalators, wheelchair lifts and moving walkways are.

Each one is marked in service or under repair.

Made for people who find stairs hard, parents with strollers, wheelchair users and their caregivers, so they can check before leaving.

Seoul's data uses two values: in service and under repair.

It does not say whether a unit is broken or in maintenance. We do not guess a reason.

If one is under repair, look at the other lifts at the same station.

Locations are the install-location text from the data, in Korean.

We pull out an exit number only where the text names one. That is about half of the entries.

Where there is no number, we show the original text and do not make one up.

Every page shows the date and time of the data. The source has no update time, so it is when we fetched it.

This is not live. We refresh once a day.

If the data is over a day old, a banner says so. On site, signs and staff come first.

Press Copy this station link at the bottom of a station page, then paste it into a message.

Large text makes the letters bigger. Handy when you show the screen to an older relative.

Print gives a clean list of that station with no ads.

The data is Seoul Metro's lift status, published on Seoul Open Data Plaza under KOGL Type 1, so we credit the source.

Only Seoul subway stations. Other cities and Korail lines are not covered yet.

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