Samseong station

Not to be confused with Samseong station (Gyeongsan), Samsong station, or Sanseong station.

"Samseong" redirects here. For other uses, see Samseong (disambiguation).

Samseong Station is a station on 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. Due to security concerns, the station was closed during the G20 summit and the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, as this station is directly connected with COEX.

219 삼성 (무역센터) Samseong (World Trade Center Seoul)
Station Sign
Korean name
Hangul	삼성역
Hanja	三成驛
Revised Romanization	Samseongnyeok
McCune–Reischauer	Samsŏngnyŏk
General information
Location	172-66 Samseong 1-dong, 538 Teherandaero Jiha, Gangnam-gu, Seoul[1]
Operated by	Seoul Metro
Line(s)	Line 2
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	December 23, 1982[1]
Passengers
(Daily) Based on Jan-Dec of 2012. Line 2: 137,927[2]
Services
Preceding station Seoul Metropolitan Subway Following station Sports Complex Next counter-clockwise Line 2 Seolleung Next clockwise

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 between 2010 and 2012.

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

Although the name of this station shares its pronunciation with the company Samsung, the Hanja for the company (三星) and the station (三成) are different, so 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

B1 Concourse

Lobby

Customer Service, Shops, Vending machines, ATMs

B2 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. "삼성역" (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
2. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
3. Kwon, Sang-soo (12 September 2012). "City designates area by COEX as smoke-free". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 9 December 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2012.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

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