Jichuk station

Jichuk Station is a railway station located just northwest of Seoul on Seoul Subway Line 3. It is within walking distance to Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul. Jichuk station has a subway depot for Line 3 trains nearby.

Origin of the name

Jichuk Station is named after the administrative area (dong) that it is located in. The area used to belong to two villages in the Joseon period. Jijeong-ri produced paper, while Chuk-ri was famous for its bush clover. When the area became united under Goyang-gun, it was named using the first syllables of the two villages.^[3]

Station layout

Passengers

References

^ a b "지축역" (in Korean). Doopedia. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
^ Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
^ "Jichuk". Seoul Metro. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2016-09-18.
^ Original data from Seoul Metro (2006)

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