This is the news that Euljiro 3-ga Station on Seoul Subway Lines 2 and 3 will be called 'Shinhan Card Station' side by side.
Seoul Transportation Corporation announced yesterday (12th) that on the 10th, Shinhan Card and Euljiro 3-ga Station and Amorepacific signed a contract to sell sub-station names for Shinyongsan Station. The station name arming work will start this month and will be completed by March.
Euljiro 3-ga Station The sales price of the sub-station name is 874 million won, which is the highest amount among contracts so far. The name of Shin Yong-san was sold for 380 million won.
In August of last year, Seoul Transportation Corporation held an open bidding to find operators who would sign a station name contract for eight stations including Euljiro 4-ga, Nowon, Ttukseom, Yeoksam, Balsan, and Naebang.
As a result of the bidding, Euljiro 4-ga Station was marked as 'Euljiro 4-ga (BC Card)', Yeoksam Station as 'Yeoksam (Center Field)', and Naebang Station as 'Naebang (Yujung Art Center)'.
The station name arming project first started in 2016, and at that time, no additional projects were carried out after the Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation were merged to form the Seoul Transportation Corporation.
However, as the number of passengers decreased due to Corona 19 in the accumulated deficit every year, Seoul Transportation Corporation promoted the station name weapon project again for the first time in five years since the second half of last year to overcome the financial difficulties.
According to the Seoul Transportation Corporation, the net loss for the year was KRW 385 billion in 2016, KRW 525.4 billion in 2017, KRW 538.9 billion in 2018, and KRW 586.5 billion in 2019. 113.7 trillion won, exceeding 1 trillion won.
An official from the construction company said, "Since the financial situation of the construction is difficult, we are proceeding with the station name weapon project."
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