Sangwangsimni station

Sangwangsimni Station is a station on Seoul Subway Line 2 in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea.^[1][2]

207 상왕십리 Sangwangsimni
Station Platform
Korean name
Hangul	상왕십리역
Hanja	上往十里驛
Revised Romanization	Sang-wangsimni-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Sangwangsimni-yŏk
General information
Location	374 Wangsimni-ro jiha, 946-14 Hawangsimni-dong, Seongdong-gu, Seoul[1][2]
Operated by	Seoul Metro
Line(s)	Line 2
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	September 16, 1983[1]
Passengers
(Daily) Based on Jan-Dec of 2012. Line 2: 18,887[3]
Services
Preceding station Seoul Metropolitan Subway Following station Sindang Next counter-clockwise Line 2 Wangsimni Next clockwise

Station layout

G

Street level

Exit

L1 Concourse

Lobby

Customer Service, Shops, Vending machines, ATMs

L2 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Northbound	← Line 2 toward City Hall (Sindang)
	Southbound	→ Line 2 toward Chungjeongno (Wangsimni) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Accident

On May 2, 2014 KST, two subway cars collided at Sangwangsimni Station, causing 238 injuries.^[4][5]

References

1. "상왕십리역" (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
2. "상왕십리역" (in Korean). 서울지명사전. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
3. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
4. Rose Kim; Seyoon Kim (2 May 2014). "Collision on Seoul's Busiest Subway Line Injures 172". Bloomberg. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
5. Kim, Jack; Yang, Kahyun (May 2, 2014). "Subway trains crash in South Korean capital, 200 people hurt". Reuters. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

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