High-speed route
KTX-Eum Jungbu Inland
Pangyo → Mungyeong · South Korea
- Distance
- 144 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 96 km/h
- Top speed
- 230 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- EMU-260
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2024
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Korea’s newest inter-city railway, finished through to Mungyeong in November 2024: EMU-260 sets past Chungju and the Suanbo hot springs to the old post road town under Mungyeong Saejae.
How this line was checked
- The 96 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 12351758 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Korail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in KO) ↗
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