The Taxi Fare Was $280K

Well getting a massive taxi fare is better than getting injured somewhere random while drunk

One's literally a matter of life and death, the other's just your wallet dying ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

If you negotiate well you might could get it cheaper

Our team lead did a work dinner in Seoul then passed out in a taxi asking to go to Daegu on instinct. Woke up mid-ride and realized he had a meeting in Seoul that morning, so made the driver turn around and go back to Seoul... taxi fare was like 500K... just 3 months ago...

Apparently it's one of taxi drivers' dreams. One is 'follow that car please' and the other is 'if you're heading to Busan go to Seoul instead, if you're heading to Seoul go to Busan instead'

Whatever the passenger pays is the fare to the destination, the driver covers tolls for the return trip

It's included in the surcharge for long-distance rides

okay but how does that even happen?? uber surge pricing has entered the chat

One run then rest for a day lol ㅋㅋ

If they pick up a return passenger to Seoul it's basically jackpot

Definitely a win

Even accounting for gas costs and rest time on the way back, I'm not sure if it's actually profitable

Here's the move: rest until evening, then gather up people who missed the last bus at the terminal and split the fare with them. Then it's basically just a taxi situation ㅋㅋㅋ I did that once when I had to rush from Daegu to Gwangju

Yeah, driving around empty is the biggest loss. But this way you're making money the whole time

It's basically a day's income in one run lmao why wouldn't you do it ㅋㅋ

The real benefit is during all that time you don't have to go hunting for new passengers separately, you just cruise the highway straight there which is way easier

(Heard directly from a driver) Apparently there's some taxi regulation thing where you can't pick up passengers outside your registered business area. Like if you pick up someone going from Busan to Yangsan, and then try to pick up another passenger in Yangsan, the local drivers will have their eyes peeled and try to report you saying 'hey why is this Busan taxi picking up passengers here.' They'll jump on you hard.

You're allowed to return to your own area. In Busan you can go to Yangsan but obviously can't pick up passengers within Yangsan, and you can't take people to Kimhae or Changwon, but you CAN take someone going back to Busan. Thing is, you usually don't know where this guy's actually gonna ask to go so it's just faster to make a beeline back anyway lol