Seolleung Station is a
Seoul Subway
The Seoul Metropolitan Subway () is a urban rail transit, metropolitan railway system consisting of 23 rapid transit, Medium-capacity rail transport system, light metro, commuter rail and people mover lines located in northwest South Korea. T ...
station that serves
Line 2 and the
Suin–Bundang Line. The station is named after the nearby
Seonjeongneung,
Joseon Dynasty
Joseon ( ; ; also romanized as ''Chosun''), officially Great Joseon (), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean Empire in October 1897. The kingdom w ...
royal tombs ''Seolleung'' (선릉, 宣陵) and ''Jeongneung'' (정릉, 靖陵).
On Line 2, the preceding and following stations are
Yeoksam Station and
Samseong Station. On the Suin-Bundang Line these are
Seonjeongneung Station, which connects with
Line 9, and
Hanti Station.
Facilities
* In 2011, retailer
Home plus
Homeplus () is a South Korea, Korean discount store retail chain running about 140 branches with 25,000 employees throughout South Korea. Homeplus is the second largest retailer in South Korea, behind Shinsegae, Shinsegae Group's e-mart chain.
...
opened the world's first virtual supermarket in the station, where smartphone users can photograph the bar codes of life-size pictures, on the walls and platform screen doors, of 500 items of food, toiletries, electronics etc., for delivery within the same day. However, the Home plus virtual supermarket is currently closed and no longer exists(2023).
* There is a convenience store called Storyway near
Suin–Bundang Line ticket gate.
* Restrooms are located outside the ticket gate, and there are a total of two, one near
Line 2 ticket gate and the other near
Suin–Bundang Line ticket gate.
Passenger load
In a survey conducted in 2011 by the
Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs on 92
Administrative divisions
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across the country, it reported that Seolleung Station is the fourth-busiest public transit stop following
Gangnam Station,
Jamsil Station,
Sadang Station; and followed by
Sillim Station.
References
Seoul Metropolitan Subway stations
Metro stations in Gangnam District
Railway stations in South Korea opened in 1982
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