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Metropolitan cities around world are making efforts to secure competitiveness and decrease the social cost of transportation. The constant increate of private cars has become the reason for not only economical burden for the cities but also increase of pollution, health problems and environmental issues. For this reason, most of the major cities of the world are trying to encouraged a change by creating better transportation systems, with better facilities and policies that can help improve the increasing issues. In the past the increase of car ownership caused the worst levels of congestion inside the different cities and in their metropolitan areas. Road expansion become the best solution to solve this problems nonetheless with time cities were no longer made for people but for cars. Several cities in the world tried to look for new solutions to reduce congestion and give the city back to its pedestrians. The Seoul Metropolitan Government took acton by attempting to revive the public transportation that was in a deep crisis during the late 80’s by regulating prices, creating new transfer stations, improving the service, creating time efficiency creating exclusive bus lines, encourage quality control and organizing the routes and bus numbers for users to become more attracted to the service. A set of policies were put in practice in 2004 in order to find solutions for the lost of bus riders, and economical and social crisis that the bus industry of Seoul was suffering. This paper makes a review of all the key policies made by Seoul that allowed the city to take the bus industry of the deep crisis and encourage the walkability of the city.