[Pros and Cons of the Week] "Seoul is rather more liveable than Australian cities...?"

Some of SBS Korean audiences have argued “Seoul is rather more liveable than Sydney or Melbourne, considering the immediacy of public service, security, quality of public transport and level of education.”

Commuters are seen at Town Hall train station in Sydney on 23 August 2019. Source: AAP

Those comments were written on SBS Korean SNS following the news that Melbourne is no longer the world's most liveable city, however, still ranked in the 2^nd place just behind Vienna in a global ranking system which handed the Australian city the crown for seven years.

The Economist's 2018 Global Liveability Index has Sydney in fifth place and Adelaide 10th on the list, after calculating scores taking into account 30 factors related to stability, health care, culture, environment, education and infrastructure.