S(ubstack)-Bahn

A Tour in Search for the Soul of Seoul

Jongmyo Shrine, Sewoon Sangga, and the uncertain future of the Korean capital

Feb 13 • S.Y. Lee

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September 2025

How Seoul Metro Installed Platform Screen Doors Everywhere

The political history of a safety equipment

Sep 6, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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July 2025

Next Stop for S(ubstack)-Bahn

Choo choo

Jul 13, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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June 2025

Urban Paradise Lost?: The History of Seoul's Only Planned City

Why are residents of an urbanist dream so mad?

Jun 10, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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May 2025

How France Saved its Public Transit from Catastrophe

One simple trick to revive a system in death spiral

May 25, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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March 2025

One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul's Metro Was Born

The story of Seoul Metro Line 1 and its consequences

Mar 30, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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February 2025

End of the line: Transit thoughts in an uncertain America

11 statements in a speechless time

Feb 24, 2025 • S.Y. Lee

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November 2024

Aura of Success: The First Years of Japan's Privatized National Railways

What does it take to make a railway a "success"?

Nov 15, 2024 • S.Y. Lee

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April 2024

Train-Surfing: A Global Look

An attempt at context to an act of madness

Apr 20, 2024 • S.Y. Lee

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March 2024

The Rise and Fall of Japan's National Public Railway Labor Unions

A forgotten powerhouse which shaped Japan's present-day railways

Mar 9, 2024 • S.Y. Lee

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February 2024

The Death and Privatization of Japanese National Railways (Part 2, 1982-1987)

How does a national train agency die?

Feb 29, 2024 • S.Y. Lee

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October 2023

The Assassination of HS2 by the Coward Rishi Sunak

Cost creep cripples high-profile high-speed rail projects. But it's not what kills them.

Oct 8, 2023 • S.Y. Lee

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