Posted by woow
Posted on July 15, 2017
By Chyung Eun-ju, Park Si-soo
Buses in the Chinese city of Dandong have added Korean to their announcement languages in what appears
to be a move to treat the increasing number of South Korean visitors better.
It is also believed to be connected with North Korea, given that Dandong faces the North over the Yalu River and a significant amount of trade with the isolated country flows through the city.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the first Korean announcement started early this month on the 101, 102, 103 and 106 buses. Some bus stations display bus routes in Korean, it reported.
"Taking into consideration that Dandong is on the border of China and North Korea, we decided to provide the Korean language service for the comfort of overseas Koreans, North Korean residents and Chinese-Koreans," a Dandong bus company official was quoted as saying in the Yonhap story.
Some experts said the Korean announcement could be seen as China's overture to mend fences with South Korea, whose ties have turned sour over the controversial deployment of a U.S. missile defense system on Korean soil.
