Kumgangsan Chongnyon station

Railway station in Kosong County, North Korea

Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn

금강산청년

Korean name

Hangul

금강산청년역

Hanja

金剛山青年驛

Revised Romanization

Geumgangsan Cheongnyeon-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn-yŏk

General information

Location

Kosŏng,
Kangwŏn Province
North Korea

Coordinates

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Kosŏng towards Anbyŏn		Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line		Samilp'o towards Jejin (ROK)

Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in Kosŏng county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea^[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.^[2]

History

The station, originally called Oegŭmgang station, was opened on 16 September 1932 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the fifth section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from Changjŏn to Oegŭmgang (nowadays called Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn).

Services

Due to the partition of Korea, Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is the terminus for domestic passenger trains operating on the line.^[2] In 2007, after the reconstruction of the disused section between Kamho and Chejin in the South, passenger trains began operating from the south to bring southern tourists to the Mount Kŭmgang Tourist Region.^[3] More than one million civilian visitors crossed the DMZ until the route was closed following the shooting death of a 53-year-old South Korean tourist in July 2008.^[4]

References

^ Road map of Korea, North and South, published December 2010 by Freytag and Berndt, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-3-7079-0974-6
^ ^a ^b Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
^ "Trans-Korean Railway" (PDF). Korean Rail Technology (English). 9: 09–11. September 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
^ "ROK woman tourist shot dead at DPRK resort". China Daily. July 12, 2008.