seoul is indisputably the most affluent and the most autonomous subnational government in korea with a financial independence rate calculated as the percentage of local own resources over total budget of which is by far the highest rate among subnational governments in korea the bars do not equal due to a number of possible reasons when there was no response when the government voluntarily eliminated some responses to protect individuals privacy and when the census automatically eliminates records if the number of responses collected in the investigation area is less than five to eliminate outliers it ranks first among korean tl regions in terms of road length mkm compared with a national average of mkm the number of train stations including subway stations railway length mkm and subway line length mkm far above secondranked busan with mkm and thirdranked daegu with mkm in koti kostat a the combined modal share of public transport and nonmotorised modes is almost see figure