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Why I Love South Korea’s SUPER RAPID TRAIN / Busan to Seoul



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Hello and welcome back to South Korea for a exciting highspeed train video!

Today we’ll be travelling from South Korea’s second largest city, Busan to the capital, Seoul on the country’s private highspeed operator, SRT. Offering some stiff competition to the national operator Korail, and their highspeed KTX trains which run on the same route, so enjoy my video!

Date of Filming: 29/11/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: SRT
Departure: Busan, South Korea
Arrival: Seoul Suseo, South Korea
Cost: First Class – 76,300 Korean Won (£46, €52, $57)
Second Class – 52,600 Korean Won (£32, €36, $39)

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24 Comments

  3. Ma J'y

    02:45, "There are no ticket or security checks before you're allowed to the platforms". Of course! This sounds obvious to any East-Asian or European but it comes as a big surprise to most US Americans and Canadians. North America is so obsessed with planes that it treats stations like airports, with "watiting lounges", luggage weighing (!), "boarding" processes etc. This is ridiculous and obliterates one of the great benefits of (high-speed rail) over air or road travel. Even America's impressive new high-speed operator Brightline spoils its travelers' experience by forcing them to arrive well in advance, go through a check-in and boarding process etc. Which inevitably extends the total travel time and sometimes completely obliterates the advantage of its high-speed trains over driving within Florida. In Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, you hardly have any checks before boarding the train (I should say "stepping onboard" rather than "boarding"): some quick luggage screening for the Spanish AVE, some random checks for the Thalys – only the Eurostar has a genuine pre-boarding check process, because it travels through the Chunnel and because the UK is outside the EU. If Canada and the US want their current and future high speed and high frequency trains to be successful, they should just stop treating them like airplanes. Kudos to South Korea for understanding this!

  7. Richard Bevan

    By European standards this is a nice train but a bit lacking compared to a Shinkansen. There is no level boarding, the seats don't line up with the windows and two rows share the same window blind. The loading gauge is narrower so the train is more cramped inside. The first class seats look quite cheap compared to a 700 series Shinkansen.

    From the way people stand on the platform there are no door markings for people to line up at either, people are standing around and then walking to the doors once the train stops (like in Europe!).

    On the other hand the price is quite reasonable (perhaps the only thing it does better than a Shinkansen)

  9. shan jida

    So why there is 330km/h is written on the thumbnail if the train does not even travel at that speed?

  14. Jeff Schrader

    Good video and a really good way to travel from Busan to Seoul. The price is inexpensive enough that i could fit it in my budget. Keep making these videos!

  16. Frank Hermans

    South Korea have great trains, i was there in February 2023 and took the KTX from Daejeon to Seoul and back. Good service and the ticket i booked online on the app. Very convenient!

  21. RailDuck

    I have tip for trip for you:
    They renovated cog railway in High Tatras, now there are new trains that can also ride on train railway

  22. Martin Breslin

    I used to live in South Korea from 2012-2015 and have been to Busan many times. The SRT wasn't available then.

    Pyeongtaekjije used to be just a stop on Seoul Metro Line 1 which was just Jije Station. I used to live near this station. Pyeongtaek is a large city and has a nearby US Army Base and US Air Force Based. Many foreigners also live in this area.

  23. Rachel Chu

    Great review! I've never taken this service, but I've taken the original KTX out of central Seoul to Busan on the TGV trainsets. I used to always refer to KTX as the "only TGV whose first class I can actually afford" – I've indeed noticed that transportation in South Korea is a good value, compared to everything else which can be pricey.

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