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Matthew writes: The Subway under Seoul, South Korea, was rebooted today in an attempt to fix numerous accumulating problems. Among the problems noted by transportation authorities were an accumulation of unauthorized advertisements cluttering the walls, unexplained slowness of the trains, some stuck automatic doors, and a group of tourists that had accumulated in the lower levels of the subway and had been unable to find their way out.

During the reboot, BIOS messages were visible on automatic signs throughout the subway. The reboot appeared to have solved some of the problems, but the persistent problem of accumulated advertisements has returned, and the trains are beginning to slow down again. Transportation authorities have been asking other governments if they know anybody who knows how to clean up subways permanently or if they should just give up and buy a new subway.