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Hi, I am Kyung Eun Choi from Talk To Me In Korean.
Hello, I'm Hyo Jin Ahn.
Hyo Jin, where are we now?
We are on the bus.
Hyo Jin, you look really excited.
I really like buses.
You like buses?
Yes.
Why do you like buses?
Buses are good.
What is good about them?
When riding the bus, I can look out the window like this,
Aha, out the window!
Subways are a bit stuffy, but when riding the bus, I can look out the window, yes, I think it is good.
Then, do you usually take the bus when going to work and getting home from work?
Of course. I take the bus to work.
If I take the subway to and from work, I have to walk to the station for 10 minutes,
take subway line 4, transfer to line 2,
and then take the bus after getting off the subway to work.
But by bus, there is a stop one minute away from my house and the stop I get off at if one minute away from work,
so I can get here straight.
Yeah true, but doesn't my expression look a bit bad right now?
Yes, like usual.
I am always smiling, but I get carsick quite easily.
So I don't get carsick but get a headache, and first the headache, and then I cannot breathe.
It is suffocating.
Also, the bus keeps shaking like this.
Since the bus is shaking, looking at the camera makes me dizzy and talking is also hard to be honest.
So when I am on the bus, I can't even send texts with my iPhone.
I can't look at my iPhone and the only thing I can do is listen to music and sleep.
Oh really? When I ride the subway I sleep, but when I ride the bus I have no time to sleep since I am looking out the window.
I also really like passing by the Han River like this. Me too.
Going by Han river has its good points
but the bus drivers drive too dangerously.
No, if you say that the bus drivers will scold you.
Oh, of course there are people that don't, but strangely most of the buses I get on, the drivers come to sudden stops often and drive quite dangerously.
It's rather better because I'm sitting down like this, but I really don't like buses because when there are a lot of people I have to stay standing up
and I also have to hold on to the handgrip but can't, and it is too tough. That's why I don't like buses.
It's true the buses are uncomfortable when there is a lot of traffic and a lot of people but the reason I like buses is like I said before, you can look out the window and also...
Tell me something else.
To mention other things, to go ride the subway, you have to go all the way to the subway station.
But there are a lot more bus stations than subway stations, so you can get to places you want from places that are nearer, and those kinds of things are the good points.
You think so? I don't know. I still don't know if buses are good.
Also for some places you have to transfer a couple of times and travel a long time, but there are many places where you can get to faster by bus.
The subways also go very quickly. The buses get into traffic. There is no traffic for subways.
But as long as there is no traffic... Not long ago, my parents said they were going to Gangnam station because there was a wedding.
But they couldn't take their car because there might've been traffic and they said they would take the subway. So I told them "Take the subway for what? Take the bus."
The bus has even more traffic.
But the buses don't get that much traffic... Not as much traffic as you think.
There is not much jam and I really think you can save half the time of riding the subway.
Oh, really? Okay. Then let's take the subway later and compare again.
Okay.
Bye. Go buses!
See you later.
Here! We have arrived in the subway.
It's stuffy.
What's stuffy? When I was on the bus, I felt sick and I think I still feel a bit strange.
But now that I'm in the subway, I feel very good.
The subway is underground.
Yes, even when I'm underground, I don't feel sick like I did when riding the bus.
Ninja Turtles live underground...
I'm sorry.
This kid is a bit like this.
But Hyo Jin, you liked it a lot as soon as you got here.
What did Hyo Jin do as soon as she got here?
But that's because this subway station is special.
Why? What's special?
I liked it because this is the Seoul soccer stadium, where the field is,
so when you get off this station, this Worldcup field station, there are pictures of the FC Seoul players. The subway itself, I really don't like.
But still, it is the subway. All those pictures could be there because this is the subway.
I don't think so.
I think this is the only special subway station and normally on subways it's hard to look out the window and it is stuffy.
But actually on subway line 2 you can look out the window.
On line 2 and line 3 you can also see the Han River.
There are a lot of places you can see as well.
Also when I ride the subway I can read, talk to my friend on the phone, and do everything.
Since I don't get dizzy. There is no nausea. So it's really good because I can do everything. Also it is comfortable to read books.
I read books on the bus.
That is really hard for me.
I also really don't like people that talk on the phone on the subway.
On the subway I call, and talk on the phone quitely. I don't talk on the phone loudly.
Also the best thing about subways is that there really is no traffic.
Things like that are good but in the case of subways, the reason I don't like it because
I have to walk a long way to take the subway. I have to walk to the subway station.
Get some exercise.
Hyo Jin lacks exercise so I always tell her to exercise.
I guess it's because she doesn't ride the subway.
The subway, another reason the subway is not good, another reason that the subway is not good is (See?).
I got worked up.
You have to go up and down the staircase.
That's why it gives you exercise.
But it's tough.
My legs hurt.
Oh really? If you don't even exercise that much, it's really serious Hyo Jin.
Anyway, that's why I don't like subways.
Also the Korean subway, the Seoul subway is really clean as you can see.
It's really clean and also the thing I think of most highly is that there are bathrooms. Also you can buy things like drinks.
When you feel a bit tired you can sit and rest before going.
Also you can buy newspapers.
On the bus there are trash cans so you can throw away drinks you are done with.
There are no trash cans on buses.
Yes there are. The buses I ride on have them.
Just one!
Only that bus has is and most of the buses don't have trash cans.
These days, the trend is on the increase.
Stop lying. Again.
Also on subways I think just staying here, just standing here itself gets a bit stuffy.
Of course if you stay very long, a very long time on the subway you feel stuffy but this is using public transportation.
For us we don't have to stay longer than an hour, about two hours at most.
But when you ride the bus, you can transfer from the spot you got off but for subways you have to walk a long time again when transferring.
There are disadvantages like that but as I said before, it gives me a bit of exercise.
So I really really really like it.
If you think of it that way, then you can ride the bus like riding amusement park rides.
That's a lie.
I do that.
You can't ride amusement park rides.
I rode the Viking. Why are you being like that.
You rode the Viking once right?
I rode it twice.
Anyway, I think subways are really good. Hyo Jin thinks that buses are good. We are curious about your opinion, so leave a comment.
Yes. As a comment, write "I like buses."
Leave "I like subways". Also if you make us a video like we did, it will be even better. We are curious.
Yes. We will visit and definitely leave a comment.
Thank you. Bye�