Northbound Trains at Yongsan Station on Line 1 Skip Stops for Over 2 Hours Due to Disability Rights Group Protest (Comprehensive)

Boarding Protests at Yongsan Station (Line 1) and Hyehwa Station (Line 4)
Rally Demanding Budget Inclusion and Start of Tent Sit-In

On the morning of August 10, the National Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (NSADD) staged a subway boarding protest, causing northbound trains at Yongsan Station to temporarily skip the station without stopping. As a result, subway commuters experienced inconvenience on their way to work on Monday.

On the 10th, at Yongsan Station, employees were handling the connection devices as the National Solidarity for the Elimination of Disability Discrimination (Jeonjangyeon) held a protest rally during subway boarding. Photo by Yonhap News Agency 2026.8.10

Starting at 8 a.m. that day, the NSADD held boarding protests on the platforms of Line 1 at Yongsan Station and Line 4 at Hyehwa Station, demanding that the 2027 government budget include funding for the rights of people with disabilities.

In response, Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) had northbound trains at Yongsan Station (toward Seoul Station and Cheongnyangni Station) bypass the station between 8:10 a.m. and 10:06 a.m., a period of about two hours. After this operation ended, activists boarded the trains.

At Hyehwa Station, trains were not instructed to pass without stopping, so activists using wheelchairs were able to board trains in groups of two or three around 9 a.m.

After moving to Seoul Station, the activists held a rally in front of the Korea Fiscal Information Service at 11 a.m., declaring the start of a sit-in protest to abolish discriminatory disability budgets and secure a disability rights budget, and began a tent protest.

The NSADD regularly stages subway boarding protests to call for the protection of the basic rights of people with disabilities.

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