[Eng Trans] 141216 “Rueng Rao Chao Nee” News Program – “Taecyeon 2PM Got Rejected by Thai Taxis” MC: Rueng Rao Chao Nee’s Share of the Day is the topic that has been shared and discussed widely yesterday on JYPNATION in Bangkok 2014 concert. But this is the case of one of the artists in this concert. He is the member of 2PM, trying to catch taxi at Central World, but taxi drivers rejected him. Certainly, these pictures have been shared, and many people commented “Taecyeon has actually arrived to Thailand and Bangkok, because you had experienced in getting the taxi, and got rejected”. But this incident was odd, because most taxi in that area are welcoming foreigners, and rejecting Thais. As I mentioned earlier that Taecyeon and members were coming to Thailand to perform in JYP concert. After the performance had ended, Agency had allowed artists to have their own activities on free day, which was on last Sunday. MC: So, Taecyeon went shopping at Central World in Ratchadamri area. On the way back, Korean Superstar decided to get taxi to go back to hotel on his own. But he was rejected by 4 taxi drivers not to accept customers. MC: 4 taxi? MC: Yes, 4 taxi. MC: Are there any video clips? MC: Video was a bit unsmooth. So, 4 taxi, then what? MC: This had made Taecyeon a bit confused, because no matter how many taxi he asked, no one was accepting. Eventually, fans that saw this incident could not stand seeing young Superstar try to catch Thai taxi like that, so they were trying to help (catching taxi). So when this video has been released, there are wildly discussed that “Taecyeon, you have actually arrived in Thailand, because you got rejected by taxi”. MC: Or “You are Thai now”. MC: “You are Thai now, because Thais also got rejected like that”. MC: Some of people are praising that “Famous star like him was catching taxi on the street by himself”. MC: And certainly, the issue of raising taxi fare that was discussed earlier, and the issue of DMV terminated Uber taxi licensing (*Uber taxi is private-taxi operator) have been brought up again, and got criticized. Some were scolding on Thai taxi standard. MC: Some said that with higher fare, and without competitor of Uber taxi as Uber taxi was terminated, but quality of service is not going up in same way as rising of taxi fare. MC: People wrote down “Poorly without intension to improve”. What a hush words. MC: And our journalist had asked Vice Deputy Director of Traffic Control Department, Police Colonel Wanchai Yuusang, on this situation. He was surprised, because normally we will only hear that taxi drivers are not accepting Thai, but accepting only foreigners. MC: But this incident why not taxi accepting foreigner. He said that in his opinion, this might come from communication problem? Normally, Officers are strictly regulated on taxi at the highly complaint area, such as Nana, MBK, Central World, Khao San Road, or Bus Terminals. So, there are an decreasing incidents of taxi rejected customers in these problematic areas. However, if taxi driver rejects customer without necessary cause is breaking the Traffic Law on the context that ‘if taxi driver rejects customer without necessary cause is illegal, and must pay fine of 1,000 baht”. MC: But with the implementation of new fare, fine will be increased to 2,000 baht. Has it implemented new fare yet? MC: New fare will be implemented around December 20th. MC: The issue of raising taxi fare has been quiet down, and this incident has stirred up this issue of taxi fare increase. Including the issue of termination of Uber taxi, which was the direct competitor of normal taxi. So, this was our first story of “Share of the Day”. Source: https://youtube/watch?v=hkSQnZVjOlA&feature=youtu.be (cr.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:58:00 +0000
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