Tag: Seoul Tower

Anyone want to place a bet that this cable car operator was busy looking at his phone?:

The police investigating a cable car accident that took place at N Seoul Tower on Friday will book an employee who was in charge of the operations control at the time.

The Namdaemun Police Station said the individual will be taken into custody on charges of professional negligence resulting in injury. 

In earlier police questioning, the employee is known to have said that he was late in putting the brakes on the cable car because he hadn’t been paying attention.

At around 7:15 p.m. Friday, the cable car carrying 20 passengers failed to slow down while entering the platform and crashed into the safety fence.

Seven passengers including two foreign tourists suffered minor injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital.

Cable car rides at the N Seoul Tower have since been suspended for mechanical inspections.

KBS World Radio via a reader tip

A gorilla is spotted climbing up Seoul Tower on Dec. 18, 2015, an art balloon in the shape of the herbivorous ape, that is. YTN, a cable news channel that owns the tower, installed the piece for the opening of the tower after renovating the lower floors to house cultural and commercial facilities. The structure had been limited to public access for decades before 2012 when it was used as a transmission tower for broadcasting stations. (Yonhap)