Incheon Subway

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Incheon Subway
Hangul:	인천지하철
Hanja:	仁川地下鐵
Revised Romanization:	Incheon Jihacheol
McCune-Reischauer:	Inch'ŏn Chihachŏl

The Incheon Subway is a single subway line serving the South Korean city of Incheon. It connects to the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system at Bupyeong station.

The line has 22 stations on 24.6 km of track. The Incheon subway is operated by the Incheon Rapid Transit Corporation. Two more lines are planned.

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Incheon Subway Line 1

Trial runs on Line 1, a 23 km north-south route, started in March 1999. After six years of construction it opened for regular service on 6 October 1999 as the fourth subway system in South Korea after Seoul, Busan and Daegu. A trip along the line from Gyeyang in the north to Dongmak in the south takes approximately 45 minutes. Bupyeong station is a transfer point to Korail, a route which is actually integrated into Seoul's subway network as an extension of Seoul's Line 1. At the northern terminus Gyeyang it will connect with the Incheon International Airport Railroad to Incheon International Airport, scheduled to open in 2007. Incheon's subway is totally underground except north of Gyulhyeon. A southern entension of 6.54 km & six stations will open March 2009.