Classic route
Mugunghwa-ho
Seoul → Busan · South Korea
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Mugunghwa-ho?
The Mugunghwa-ho runs 442 km from Seoul to Busan.
How long does the Mugunghwa-ho take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 5 h 20 min for the 442 km. That is an average of 83 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 150 km/h.
Who runs the Mugunghwa-ho?
Korail, with Class 8200 + coaches.
How old is the Mugunghwa-ho?
The line has been in service since 1984. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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