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mathcastles reference

Seoul Metro / Korean subway signage

지 and 역 are the constituent syllables of 지하철역 (subway station in Korean). The pattern — three repetitions of each, separated by dashes — mimics the directional route displays inside Seoul Metro carriages, which show upcoming and past stations as repeating blocks of characters with a separator in the middle.