Ever been judged by a floor?

The fatter arrow is just the icing on the cake.

This person attentions to detail

I think it's a good nudge tbh. Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don't have issues with your knees.

I just came back from Japan and 20k steps a day and hundreds of stairs for a month really put me in shape and made me realize how important good shoes are lol

Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don’t have issues with your knees.

I think stairs on the way up is good for health and fine for knees, stairs on the way down doesn't do as much for health and hurts my knees if I do too much.
- That's why on they way down you grind on the railing with your skateboard.
While I agree if you can take the stairs you should, however it really breeds ridicule if you are overweight and can't do it
- I think its a very good point. We should probably figure out how to distinguish representation here between "I'm not taking stair" sort of fat and healthy. Maybe it would make more sense to use a carrot here and instead if skinny stick man have a health symbol like a literal carrot maybe idk
But I do have issues with my knees lol
Godammit you have to make such a good and insightful comment and then use lol as punctuation. Fuck that. You're not laughing out loud, liar.
- haters gonna hate lol
- I chortled.
Agreed.. Moving to a perfectly flat city and living on the first floor isn't helping me haha
Nudge isn't real there is no evidence
- Dunno it works on me 🤷‍♂️

This would encourage me to choose physical fitness, or to laugh as my tired ass goes up the escalator. I certainly see where there is room for hurt feelings (especially with regards to health issues), but this is pretty effective given that it is in a different language and I instantly understood it.

But then they put a pole in the middle of the escalator access. LOL.

The pole is to prevent people from taking carts and similar objects up and potentially causing an accident

Though it does have unintended consequences
- Why do people have carts on the subway?
In Korea, the left of the escalator is for walking, the right is for standing.

(They have signs saying "no walking" but that's what the divider is for; to double the capacity)
- Yeah, we do that in America sometimes too. Most people ignore it, just like on the highway.
- Same in Austria, and I'm pretty sure also in Germany
I was about to say, they put a giant pole in the middle, no one who is fat will enjoy fitting through that and some even fatter people will never fit lmao

I think it is more of presenting a choice.

Do you want to be fit and slim? Take the stairs.

Do you want to be fat? Take the escalator.

Anyone know what the speech bubble says?

it's not any less problematic if that's the case because it still assumes people taking the escalator do it because they want to, rather than having like a limp or something. that sort of normalized stigma isn't good.
- Obviously I'm obese because I decided to be born with a spinal defect. I should make better choices.
- Don't normalize stigma, normalize sigma
- I think I disagree with you on this one. With obesity reaching pandemic levels internationally, I think forcing simple healthy choices is actually a great solution that helps a larger majority than those who may be stigmatized by using the escalator (for what may or may not be a visible reason to choose the escalator). At the very least it increases awareness of those healthy choices.
  
  Still curious what the speech bubble says though..
- Surely those people can disregard a picture on the floor, no? Anyone with any form of disability has to deal with far more nonsense than this (revolving doors, for example).
- Yeah as a disabled person seeing that would kind of suck.
- Yeah, fuck me for using a cane, I'm such a big fat fatty and want to be fat.
- People with meaningful physical disabilities that make it borderline impossible to climb up stairs account for... A very small slice of the population. The rest of the population should be bullied into a lifestyle that improves physical and mental health.
Speech bubble doesn't have enough pixels to be read
- That’s why they’re black.
  
  Edit: To be clear here I was attempting a pun based on read sounding like red. Hence not enough pixels to be red means it’s black.

You should see the names of asian big and tall clothing shops.

Asia doesn't fuck around when it comes to conformity.

I like the bollard that would make it uncomfortable for really fat people to get by.

I guess there's an upper limit where they're like, "Hey, this is getting ridiculous. Take the stairs."
- I've seen escalator mechanisms fail before, I could believe that's a dual purpose for it (as well as presumably carts or scooters)
- Apparently Americans aren't welcome here.
Not to mention folks on crutches.

Closeup for anyone interested

Google translated

8 SECONDS FOR EVERY 2 STEPS CLIMBED? Did Korea just discover the secret of immortality and it's to keep climbing stairs?
- Its possible to climb 4 steps at once
  
  Assuming you can do it in a second and that the way back down takes the same amount of time, you can increase your life by 8 seconds per second
  
  If you do this for 20 years continuously, you could live to over 160 years old
I like how it says save energy, but also says you burn 0.5kcal per step
- "Calories" that would otherwise be burned by the escalator (electricity), I'm sure it uses more when under load, some of them even go in low speed mode when no one's on it.

Right to American embassy?

finally, accommodations for Americans

I go on the escalator but walk because I'm only half lazy and also want to go fast

Walking fast on the moving sidewalks makes me feel like Captain America.
- ...moving...sidewalks??
- Hmm, would running make you feel like the Flash? Or is that just not in the cards?

Baymax

I think it's more like parachute pants to the right, hipster pants to the left. No regular pants allowed.

What about us who don't wear pants?
- Then feel free to take either option via Zoom meeting

Boy, the comment section should be fun with this one

Good chance to curate my block list.
- Can I be in your block list?
  
  I don't have any major infractions but I have the capacity to be bad once in a while

It's educational and a good initiative. I use stairs as an opportunity for exercise also.

I'm a skinny bastard, so I'm taking the escalator

Idk why you're joking but i used to be underweight and couldn't afford a lot of food, and i genuinely tried to burn as few calories as possible, making choices like you're describing all the time.

Edit: some weird typo autocorrected, i meant to say 'I know you're joking but[...]'
- calories are cheap, it's nutrition that costs

You must be THIS BIG to ride this ride.

But no more than THIS WIDE because of the pole

Yeah well maybe an icon that usually tells people where to take a shit shouldn't be so fucking critical.

Maybe it should show the number of calories you'd burn going up the stairs. It would be a small number, but it's better than 0.

For 75kg (roughly average South Korean male weight) and 7" step height (standard in the US I think, not sure about Korea), this is about 0.13kJ/step.

By coincidence, the human metabolic efficiency is (roughly) the same as the conversion between kJ and food (kilo)calories, meaning this would be (very roughly) 0.1 calories/step.

Not much, given a single French fry is maybe 5-10 calories. But it's better than nothing!
It does actually show that

It says you burn 0.5Kcal for every 2 steps you take, and extend your life by 8 seconds.

Here is even an example that shows progress as your calories and seconds added increase as you climb up the stairs.
My former job used to have that on the stairs. Was a nice motivator for me.

Ever tried to climb 5 flights of stairs after a redeye, with 56 lbs of luggage?

Asians wouldn't carry so much unnecessary bullshit of course. 😉
- Lol spoken like one who has never been to an outlet shopping mall near a major tourist destination.

Korean are savage, you will meet someone you haven't seen in a while,and they will look at you straight in the eyes znd tell you " Wow, you gained weight!!!" Just after saying "hi!"

My friend is Chinese, straight from China. Her english is great. That doesn't stop her from saying "why you wear that shirt, make you look so ugly". I love the brutality.

That doesn't look like Korea, I'm guessing Japan. The text looks like Chinese characters, and Korea hasn't used those for hundreds of years. Korean script is more blocky and easily recognizable even with this incredible level of blur.

The black speech bubble looks absolutely like Korean to me. It's possible the text underneath is simply a translation for Japanese and Chinese, though.
- Perhaps. I can't make out the black bubble, it's too blurry, but I can definitely tell the white bubble is not Korean (SO is Korean and I can read but not speak Korean). If there were just a few more pixels, I could probably read what it says, and I can distinguish Japanese and Chinese, so I could make an educated guess about it being a translation.
It's the Sangbong subway station in Seoul.
- Oh crazy, even the bottom is in Korean.
  
  Black bubble:
  
  에너지 아끼고 건강도 챙기고
  
  Google translate:
  
  Save energy and take care of your health.
  
  Circled bubble in the white box:
  
  생활 속 헬스장
  
  Google translate:
  
  Gym in your life.
  
  Then the bottom:
  
  계단올 두 칸 오를 때 미다
  
  Google translate:
  
  Every time you climb two steps
  
  And then just documents how much energy you burn.
  
  I'd attempt to actually translate it myself, but I honestly don't trust my vocab so I went with the Google translation, which is close enough.
- Anyone can translate this?
  
  The small amount of pixels make it look Klingon, lol.

I love it 🤣