Gwangmyeong Station

{{Short description|Train station in Gwangmyeong, South Korea}} {{for|other stations with similar names|Kwangmyong station (disambiguation){{!}}Kwangmyong station}} {{infobox station | name = {{Infobox station/Header Korail |native_name=광명 |name =Gwangmyeong }} | mlanguage = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes | hangul = 광명역 | hanja = {{linktext|光|明|驛}} | mr = Kwangmyŏng-yŏk | rr = Gwangmyeong-yeok }} | image = 광명역 2025년 12월.jpg | alt = | caption = | address = 21 Gwangmyeongyeok-ro, [[Gwangmyeong|Gwangmyeong-si]], [[Gyeonggi Province]] | coordinates = {{coord|37|24|59|N|126|53|6|E|region:KR_type:railwaystation|display=title,inline}} | passengers = (Daily) Based on Jan–Dec 2012. '''KTX''': 18,602<ref name="KTDB_kr">[http://www.ktdb.go.kr/en/web/guest/419 Monthly Number of Passengers Between General Railroad Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008055919/http://www.ktdb.go.kr/en/web/guest/419 |date=2014-10-08 }}. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.</ref> '''Line 1''': 2,888<ref name="KTDB_smesrs">[http://www.ktdb.go.kr/en/web/guest/418 Monthly Number of Passengers Between Subway Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006080247/http://www.ktdb.go.kr/en/web/guest/418 |date=2014-10-06 }}. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.</ref> | operator = {{rint|kr|rail}} [[Korail]] | lines = [[Gyeongbu high-speed railway]] | platforms = 4 | tracks = 6 | bus_routes = | structure = Aboveground | opened = April 1, 2004 | services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=KTX |line1=Gyeongbu|left1=Seoul|right1=Cheonan–Asan |line2=Honam|left2=Yongsan|right2=Cheonan–Asan|to-right2=Mokpo |system3=Seoul Metropolitan Subway |line3=1|type3=Gwangmyeong shuttle service|left3=Geumcheon-gu Office}} }}

'''Gwangmyeong station''' ({{Korean|광명역}}) is a train station in [[Gwangmyeong]], [[South Korea]]. The station was newly built as a stop of national railway operator [[Korail]]'s [[Korea Train Express|KTX]] high-speed service, {{convert|22.0|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [[Seoul Station]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://file.chosun.com/cp/press/files/200501/%BA%B8%B5%B5%C0%DA%B7%E1J20050103004.pdf |title=KTX 이용고객 2천만명 돌파 |date=2005-01-02 |publisher=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |access-date=2010-10-31 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[File:광명역 주차타워측면.jpg|alt=Near the city airport terminal on the side of Exit 4 of Gwangmyeong Station, 2024|thumb|Near the city airport terminal on the side of Exit 4 of Gwangmyeong Station, 2024]] The area surrounding the station is home to the world's second largest [[IKEA]] store at 59,000 square meters (640,000 square feet),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ikea.com/kr/ko/about_ikea/newsitem/2014-12-18 |title=이케아 광명점 12월 18일 오픈 - Ikea |access-date=2014-12-19 |archive-date=2015-07-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707195924/http://www.ikea.com/kr/ko/about_ikea/newsitem/2014-12-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/11/18/poang-ikea-hits-headwinds-in-korea-as-it-preps-largest-store-ever/|title = Poäng! IKEA Hits Headwinds in Korea|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date = 18 November 2014}}</ref> along with a large [[Costco]] store and a Lotte Premium Outlet.

==Similarly named stations== [[File:Gwangmyeong Station Korail 20170909.JPG|alt=Gwangmyeong Station (2017)|thumb|Gwangmyeong Station (2017)]] "'''Gwangmyeong station'''" is the former name of [[Gwangmyeongsageori station]] on [[Seoul Subway Line 7|Line 7]] of the [[Seoul Metropolitan Subway|Seoul Subway]] and is also the name of a station on the Hyoksin Line of the [[Pyongyang Metro]].

==Station layout== {| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=25 valign=top|'''L3''' |style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray;" valign=top width=100| |style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray;" valign=top width=390|Overpass connection |} {| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;" width=50 rowspan=25 valign=top|'''L2 Platforms''' |style="border-top:solid 1px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the left |- |style="border-bottom:solid 0px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100|'''Southbound''' |style="border-bottom:solid 0px gray;border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=390|{{0|→}} {{rcb|inline=route|Seoul Metropolitan Subway|1}} Alighting passengers only → |- |'''Platform 4''' |{{0|→}} [[Korea Train Express|KTX]] [[Gyeongbu High Speed Railway|Gyeongbu Line]] toward [[Busan Station|Busan]] ([[Cheonan–Asan Station|Cheonan–Asan]]) → |- |style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|[[Island platform]], doors will open on the left, right |- |'''Platform 2''' |{{0|→}} [[Korea Train Express|KTX]] [[Gyeongbu High Speed Railway|Gyeongbu Line]] toward [[Busan Station|Busan]] ([[Cheonan–Asan Station|Cheonan–Asan]]) → |- | rowspan="2" |Through tracks |{{0|→}} KTX Gyeongbu Line does not stop here → |- |← KTX Gyeongbu Line does not stop here |- |'''Platform 1''' |← KTX Gyeongbu Line toward [[Seoul Station|Seoul]] or [[Haengsin station|Haengsin]] (Seoul) |- |style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 2px black;text-align:center;" colspan=2|[[Island platform]], doors will open on the left, right |- |'''Platform 3''' |← KTX Gyeongbu Line toward [[Seoul Station|Seoul]] or [[Haengsin station|Haengsin]] (Seoul) |- |'''Northbound''' |← {{rcb|inline=route|Seoul Metropolitan Subway|1}} toward [[Yeongdeungpo station|Yeongdeungpo]] ([[Geumcheon-gu Office station|Geumcheon-gu Office]]) |- |style="border-top:solid 2px black;border-right:solid 2px black;border-left:solid 2px black;border-bottom:solid 1px gray;text-align:center;" colspan=2|[[Side platform]], doors will open on the left |} {| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 |style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray;" valign=top width=50|'''L1 Concourse''' |style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray;" valign=top width=100|Lobby |style="border-bottom:solid 1px gray; border-top:solid 1px gray;" valign=top width=390|Customer service, shops, vending machines, ATMs |} {| border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3 |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=50 valign=top|'''G''' |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=100 valign=top|Street level |style="border-top:solid 1px gray;" width=390 valign=top|Exit |}

==History==

===Construction===

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 [[South Korean won|won]].<ref name="gw-stats"/>

===Operation===

The station opened with the start of KTX service on April 1, 2004.<ref name="overview">{{cite web |title=Introduction of KTX |url=http://info.korail.com/2007/eng/ein/ein01000/w_ein01100.jsp |publisher=[[Korail]] |access-date=2010-11-01}}</ref>

After opening in April 2004, Gwangmyeong station was used by only an average 4,521 passengers a day.<ref name="gw-stats"/> 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 Line#Honam KTX|Honam KTX]] services.<ref name="gw-stats"/> 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.<ref name="5years">{{cite web |url=http://www.railsafety.or.kr/web/FileDownload.do?file=/por/jsp/admin/board/PORAdminBoardR.jsp/KTX_%EA%B0%9C%ED%86%B5_5%EC%A3%BC%EB%85%84_%ED%94%84%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%B7.hwp |title=KTX 개통 5주년 보도자료 |language=ko |date=2009-04-01 |publisher=Rail Safety Information System |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722141402/http://www.railsafety.or.kr/web/FileDownload.do?file=%2Fpor%2Fjsp%2Fadmin%2Fboard%2FPORAdminBoardR.jsp%2FKTX_%EA%B0%9C%ED%86%B5_5%EC%A3%BC%EB%85%84_%ED%94%84%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%82%B7.hwp |archive-date=2011-07-22 |access-date=2010-11-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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 Station|Cheonan-Asan]].<ref name="EffectofHSR2005">{{cite journal |last1=D. Suh |first1=Sunduck |last2=Yang |first2=Keun-Yul |last3=Lee |first3=Jae-Hoon |last4=Ahn |first4=Byung-Min |last5=Kim |first5=Jeong Hyun |title=EFFECTS OF THE KOREAN TRAIN EXPRESS (KTX) OPERATION ON THE NATIONAL TRANSPORT SYSTEM |journal=Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies |volume=5 |pages=175–189 |year=2005 |url=http://www.easts.info/on-line/proceedings_05/175.pdf |access-date=2010-08-27}}</ref> Gwangmyeong station was linked to [[Seoul Subway Line 1]] by a shuttle service from Yongsan on December 15, 2006.<ref name="subwayshuttle"/> 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.<ref name="subwayshuttle">{{cite web |url=http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?ctg=12&Total_ID=3215610 |title=한 칸 승객 2명 … 공기만 싣고 달린다 |date=2008-07-07 |publisher=[[JoongAng Ilbo]] |access-date=2010-10-29 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713120537/http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?ctg=12&Total_ID=3215610 |archive-date=2011-07-13 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="gw-stats">{{cite web |url=http://www.ekgib.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=439219 |title=KTX, 영등포역 등 정차… "정부에 속았다" 광명시 부글부글 |language=ko |date=2010-10-27 |publisher=Gyeonggi Ilbo |access-date=2010-11-13 }}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

When an additional KTX stop was proposed in 2004 at nearby [[Yeongdeungpo station]], some locals living around Gwangmyeong station feared that Korail would kill Gwangmyeong station by migrating all services to the new station, and formed an action group against the plan.<ref name="yeongdeungpo">{{cite web |script-title=ko:광명역은 이렇게 죽으라고? |language=ko |url=http://www.joygm.com/news/read.php?idxno=5392 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713121618/http://www.joygm.com/news/read.php?idxno=5392 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |date=2010-10-08 |publisher=Pride of Gwang Myeong |access-date=2010-11-13 }}</ref> The action group gathered 880,000 signatures, forcing the government to drop the plans in late 2005.<ref name="yeongdeungpo"/> When Yeongdeungpo station was made a KTX stop for new services via Suwon starting with November 1, 2010, protests resumed.<ref name="yeongdeungpo"/>

==Building==

Gwangmyeong station is a glass structure surrounded by large car parking spaces. Outside of Exit 1 is a large [[Costco]], and in the same direction one can also access a nearby [[CJ CGV]] cinema, the Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital, LOTTE Mall Gwangmyeong and the adjacent [[IKEA]] Gwangmyeong, the first IKEA store in the Korean Peninsula and second-largest in the world. Standing on a plot of land measuring {{convert|264,131|m2|ft2}}, the interior of the {{convert|48,184|m2|ft2}} building is open, with the tracks, which approach the station from both directions through cuttings, sunken below the main concourse, yet visible to passengers waiting at ground level. There are two stories above ground level and two below. The building measures {{convert|297|x|148|m|ft}} in terms of internal available space. Originally meant to be the terminus for KTX lines,{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} the size of the station was constructed accordingly. As the terminus changed to Seoul and Yongsan, the large difference between capacity and actual use the station and most prominently due to the size of the station, it has earned the nickname Gwangmyeong Airport by rail enthusiasts.

==Services==

Gwangmyeong station is served by KTX trains on both the [[Gyeongbu High Speed Railway#Gyeongbu KTX|Gyeongbu]] and [[Honam Line#Honam KTX|Honam KTX]] services.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://info.korail.com/2007/download/sta/1_korail_total_train_time_101101.xls |title=KTX Time Table 2010.11.01 |language=ko |publisher=[[Korail]] |access-date=2010-10-31}}</ref> Shuttle trains run every 40 min-1 hour to [[Yeongdeungpo station|Yeongdeungpo]], joining the [[Gyeongbu Line]] section of Line 1 at [[Siheung station]] in [[Seoul]]. Gwangmyeong station is not connected directly to other subway stations in the city of Gwangmyeong, namely [[Cheolsan station|Cheolsan]] and [[Gwangmyeongsageori station|Gwangmyeongsageori]], so it is necessary to change trains at [[Gasan Digital Complex station]] in [[Seoul]] to travel there, or just take one of the many buses traveling to the station.

==Gallery== <gallery mode="nolines"> File:광명역 로비 풍경 2025년 12월.jpg|Inside the Gwangmyeong station File:광명역 로비 승차권 자동발매기 2025년 12월.jpg|automatic ticket machine File:광명역 로비 승차권 사는 곳.jpg|place of ticket purchase File:광명역 도심공항터미널.jpg|Gwangmyeong Station's downtown airport terminal and exit 4 File:광명역 B환승 주차장 측면의 광명역 야경 2025년 12월.jpg|Night view and exit 4 File:광명역 B환승주차장 측면에서 바라본 야경 2025년 12월 야경.jpg|Night view and exit 4 File:Korail-P144-1-Gwangmyeong-station-platform-20191024-120052.jpg|Station platform (Line 1) </gallery>

==See also== * [[Transportation in South Korea]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Gwangmyeong Station}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071219014214/http://ktx.gm.go.kr/ Gwangmyeong Station (Korean)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071006013022/http://ktx.korail.go.kr/eng/index.html Korea Train eXpress] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071107025448/http://ktx.korail.go.kr/eng/flash/map.swf Route Map]

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