Comments on: Beating taxi drivers: Not just a USFK thing

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:06:22 +0000

Wow, that’s actually less than I was imagining. Still more than I’d be willing to pay, though.

By: dda

dda — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:23:32 +0000

When I worked for a Dutch company in Seoul, I used to take a cab to ICN, and the KAL limousine bus on my way back. The cab fare set you back around 45,000 won – including the toll gate fee for the bridge.

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:13:15 +0000

How much is the fare from Incheon Airport to downtown Seoul, anyhow? It must be prohibitively expensive! Just to get off the island has to cost a pretty penny, not to mention the expressway toll.

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:12:15 +0000

I just try to look like I know what I’m doing (which is what I am doing…looking for the counter to buy bus tickets) and steer clear of them.

By: dda

dda — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:55:01 +0000

Montclaire: no, the guys operating legally are just as guilty. Cabbies on their own [개인택시] are usually friendlier – except some of those who did time courtesy of the equivalent of the Department of Corrections], and there’s quite a bunch of them there – but those employed by cab companies usually don’t give a flying foock.

I agree with a comment above mentioning the illegals in the arrival lobby – I hate it when they come to me up close and whisper “You need taekshi?”. Last time I answered “Let’s ask the policeman over there whether you’re legal”. He wasn’t pleased…

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:51:24 +0000

For the record, the guy I mentioned in 33 did get caught. The passengers discovered they’d been ripped off a couple of minutes after stepping out of the cab.

By: That’s one way to get home, I guess at The Marmot’s Hole

That’s one way to get home, I guess at The Marmot’s Hole — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:59:40 +0000

[...] Having left roughing up taxi drivers to the English teachers, USFK is apparently concentrating its effort on wreaking havoc on Korea’s city bus system. [...]

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:00:57 +0000

montclaire, most of the bad reputation that taxi drivers get comes from the ones who opperate illegally.

By: sewing

sewing — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:06:23 +0000

My favourite taxi driver story comes from a city in North America, where the average fare between the airport and the city centre is about $25 CDN. It’s a metered fare, the same regardless of # of passengers. So the driver picks up 3 foreign businessmen downtown and takes them to the airport. When he starts, he tells them it’s $100 flat per person. They paid, too.

So I’ll concede that there are both good and bad taxi drivers everywhere!

By: montclaire

montclaire — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:32:52 +0000

Still, let’s keep in mind what a terrible reputation taxi-drivers have with the Korean public. I’ll bet the average Korean has more bad experiences with them than we foreigners do.