Classic route
Mugunghwa-ho
Seoul → Busan · South Korea
Mugunghwa-ho in pictures
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- Distance
- 442 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 83 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- Class 8200 + coaches
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 1984
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Korea’s beloved everyman Rose of Sharon train: cheap reserved seats and rattling coaches taking the slow road from Seoul to Busan.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6094786 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 42 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 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
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