With around 10 million runners in South Korea, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched fitness and leisure spaces at Gwanghwamun, Hoehyeon, and World Cup Stadium subway stations.
The initiative repurposes unused station areas into wellness hubs, offering changing rooms, lockers, powder rooms, and vending machines with running essentials like headbands, socks, and pain relief patches.
Access is free via QR codes on Naver or KakaoTalk, and lockers can be controlled through the “T Locker” app. Each facility also provides free, first-come, first-served running programs. Gwanghwamun focuses on morning prework runs and weekend trail runs, Hoehyeon offers beginner-friendly walking and jogging, and World Cup Stadium caters to intermediate and advanced runners with long-distance and family-friendly slow-running courses.
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