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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://wikis.world/users/aharoni/statuses/116593170806741101">Amir E. Aharoni (aharoni@wikis.world)'s status on Monday, 18-May-2026 11:26:18 JST</a><a href="https://wikis.world/@aharoni" title="aharoni@wikis.world"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/205630-48-20231030043718.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Amir E. Aharoni" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Amir E. Aharoni</a><div><ul><li></ul></div></section><article><p>I'm watching "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" (because of course I do), and I got curious about the protagonist's fascination for palindromes like her own name Woo Young-woo (우영우) and the Seoul subway station Yeoksam Yeok (역삼역). The English <a href="https://wikis.world/@wikipedia">@wikipedia</a> doesn't have much to say about it, so I asked ChatGPT about this station naming pattern.</p><p>It told me about the subway station called "Sinyeoksam", and even showed me a useful sidebar about with info it, even though IT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6406748#notice-12614709">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-05-18T11:26:18+09:00" title="Monday, 18-May-2026 11:26:18 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://wikis.world/@aharoni/116593170806741101" rel="external" title="Sent from wikis.world via ActivityPub">wikis.world</a></span></span><a href="https://wikis.world/@aharoni/116593170806741101">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/6090988">A screenshot of ChatGPT on desktop. At the top, ChatGPT's output listing examples of Seoul subway stations with "yeok" in the name: Yeoksam Station (역삼역) literally “Yeoksam Station.” Here the first 역 is the historical “relay station,” while the final 역 means a modern train/subway station.
Yeokchon Station (역촌역): “Yeokchon Station,” from “relay-station village.”
Sinyeoksam Station (신역삼역): “New Yeoksam Station.”So in names like 역삼역, the syllable 역 appears twice with two related but distinct meanings:the first 역 is the old place-name element “relay station”;
the second 역 is the ordinary modern word “railway/subway station.”This is not a coincidence. Modern Korean 역 “railway station” developed semantically from the older meaning “relay station.” Both are written with the same hanja 驛.The sidebar is about Sinyeoksam station, and it says: "Sinyeoksam Station is a subway station located in the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea... Line: Seoul Subway Line 9."After this, the human asks: "On which line is the Sinyeoksam station? What are the stations before and after it?"ChatGPT response is: There is no currently operating Seoul subway station called “Sinyeoksam Station” (신역삼역) as of 2026.I mentioned it because the form 신역삼 (“New Yeoksam”) exists as a place-name pattern in Korean, but I should not have implied that there is an actual station by that name in the Seoul Metro system.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/wikisworld/media_attachments/files/116/593/127/470/956/564/original/02ac24b395052574.png" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/wikisworld/media_attachments/files/116/593/127/470/956/564/original/02ac24b395052574.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.patterngroup.it</div><h5><a href="https://www.patterngroup.it/en">Homepage</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The Italian Hub of Luxury Fashion Engineering &amp; Production</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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I'm watching "Extraordinary Attorney Woo" (because of course I do), and I got curious about the protagonist's fascination for palindromes like her own name Woo Young-woo (우영우) and the Seoul subway station Yeoksam Yeok (역삼역). The English @wikipedia doesn't have much to say about it, so I asked ChatGPT about this station naming pattern.
It told me about the subway station called "Sinyeoksam", and even showed me a useful sidebar about with info it, even though IT DOESN'T FUCKING EXIST.
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1. A screenshot of ChatGPT on desktop. At the top, ChatGPT's output listing examples of Seoul subway stations with "yeok" in the name: Yeoksam Station (역삼역) literally “Yeoksam Station.” Here the first 역 is the historical “relay station,” while the final 역 means a modern train/subway station. Yeokchon Station (역촌역): “Yeokchon Station,” from “relay-station village.” Sinyeoksam Station (신역삼역): “New Yeoksam Station.” So in names like 역삼역, the syllable 역 appears twice with two related but distinct meanings: the first 역 is the old place-name element “relay station”; the second 역 is the ordinary modern word “railway/subway station.” This is not a coincidence. Modern Korean 역 “railway station” developed semantically from the older meaning “relay station.” Both are written with the same hanja 驛. The sidebar is about Sinyeoksam station, and it says: "Sinyeoksam Station is a subway station located in the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea... Line: Seoul Subway Line 9." After this, the human asks: "On which line is the Sinyeoksam station? What are the stations before and after it?" ChatGPT response is: There is no currently operating Seoul subway station called “Sinyeoksam Station” (신역삼역) as of 2026. I mentioned it because the form 신역삼 (“New Yeoksam”) exists as a place-name pattern in Korean, but I should not have implied that there is an actual station by that name in the Seoul Metro system.
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