Gwangmyeong Station
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Gwangmyeong Station
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gwangmyeong-yeok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kwangmyŏng-yŏk |
| General information | |
| Location | 267-8 Iljik-dong, 21 Gwangmyeongyeongno, Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do |
| Coordinates | 37°24′59″N 126°53′6″E / 37.41639°N 126.88500°ECoordinates: 37°24′59″N 126°53′6″E / 37.41639°N 126.88500°E |
| Operated by | Korail |
| Line(s) | Line 1 |
| Platforms | 4 |
| Tracks | 6 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Aboveground |
| Key dates | |
| April 1, 2004 | Line 1 opened |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | (Daily) Based on Jan–Dec 2012. KTX: 18,602 Line 1: 2,888 |
Gwangmyeong Station (Hangul: 광명역) is a train station in Gwangmyeong, South Korea. The station was newly built as a stop of national railway operator Korail's KTX high-speed service, 22.0 km (13.7 mi) south of Seoul Station.
The area surrounding the station is home to the world's largest IKEA store at 59,000 square meters (640,000 square feet), along with a large Costco store and a Lotte Premium Outlet.
"Gwangmyeong Station" is the former name of Gwangmyeongsageori Station on Line 7 of the Seoul Subway and is also the name of a station on Line 2 of the Pyongyang Metro.
The location of Gwangmyeong Station was finalised on October 14, 1994, though construction did not begin until December 1999. The planned name of "Namseoul Station" (literally meaning South Seoul Station) was changed to "Gwangmyeong Station" on August 28, 2000, and the station building was completed on March 27, 2004.
Construction cost was 406.8 billion won.
The station opened with the start of KTX service on April 1, 2004.
After opening in April 2004, Gwangmyeong Station was used by only an average 4,521 passengers a day. However, ridership growth was one of the fastest among KTX stations, and the daily number of KTX passengers arriving or departing at the station reached 14,608 in 2008, surpassing Yongsan Station, the Seoul terminus of Honam KTX services. In the first five years of service, until the end of February 2009, Gwangmyeong Station saw a total of 22,173,792 passenger boardings, again surpassing Yongsan Station.
In passenger surveys conducted in the first months after the launch of KTX service, the problem mentioned most often was the lack of adequate local access for intermediate stations, especially the lack of a subway connection to the two new stations Gwangmyeong and Cheonan-Asan. Gwangmyeong Station was linked to Seoul Subway Line 1 by a shuttle service from Yongsan on December 15, 2006. However, the shuttle uses the same tracks as the KTX trains, resulting in a schedule with long waiting times between the arrival of KTX and subway trains, thus the service had little impact. A 2008 survey of KTX passengers arriving or departing at Gwangmyeong Station found that 57% used private cars, 11% took a taxi, 28% took a bus, and only 4% took the subway train.
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