Samseong Station

Samseong Station
Samseong Station
Korean name
Hangul	삼성역
Hanja	三成驛
Revised Romanization	Samseongnyeok
McCune–Reischauer	Samsŏngnyŏk
Railway Services
Daily ridership	Based on Jan-Dec of 2012. Line 2: 137,927[1]
Line 2
← Sports Complex Seolleung →
Station number	219
Address	172-66 Samseong 1-dong, 538 Teherandaero Jiha, Gangnam-gu, Seoul[2]
Date opened	December 23, 1982[2]
Type	Underground
Platforms/tracks	1 / 2
Operator	Seoul Metro

Samseong Station is a station on the Seoul Subway Line 2. It serves the eastern area of Teheranno. Some of the more famous buildings near the station include World Trade Center Seoul, COEX Mall, Korea Electric Power (KEPCO) headquarters, Korea Air City Terminal (buses run from here to Incheon and Gimpo Airports, and vice versa), and Gangnam main police and fire stations.

The ridership of this station is very high, consistently ranking among the five most heavily used subway stations in Korea. The table below shows the average daily ridership of recent 3 years (2013 will be uploaded at the end of this year).

Year	2010	2011	2012
Ridership	69,863	70,501	68,002

The name of this station sounds like Samsung, but there is no relation between the two.

The 836-meter (914-yard) section of sidewalk along Yeongdong Boulevard from exit No.5 of this station, outside COEX Convention & Exhibition Center and ASEM Tower is designated as a smoke-free zone by the Seoul Metropolitan Government.^[3]

Station layout

G

Street level

Exit

L1 Concourse

Lobby

Customer Service, Shops, Vending machines, ATMs

L2 Platform level	Inner loop	← Line 2 toward Chungjeongno (Seolleung)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Outer loop	→ Line 2 toward City Hall (Sports Complex) →

Vicinity

• Exit 1 : Gangnam Police Station, Park Hyatt Hotel
• Exit 2 : Russian Embassy of Korea
• Exit 3 : Hwimoon Middle & High Schools
• Exit 4 : POSCO Center, Daemyeong Middle School
• Exit 5 : Korea Air City Terminal, Hyundai Department Store, InterContinental Hotel Grand Seoul Parnas
• Exit 6 : COEX Mall (direct passageway), World Trade Center Seoul
• Exit 7 : KEPCO Headquarters
• Exit 8 : Gangnam Fire Station

References

1. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
2. "삼성역" (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
3. Kwon, Sang-soo (12 September 2012). "City designates area by COEX as smoke-free". Joongang Daily. Retrieved 5 October 2012.

Coordinates: 37°30′31.48″N 127°3′48.67″E / 37.5087444°N 127.0635194°E