High-speed route
KTX
Seoul → Busan · South Korea
KTX in pictures
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- Distance
- 417 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 185 km/h
- Top speed
- 305 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- KTX · KTX-Sancheon
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2004
- Riders per year
- ≈ 89M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Korea’s TGV-derived flagship halved the Seoul–Busan run: today the corridor is one of the most intensively served on Earth.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11214334 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- 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
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