Jegi-dong Station is a station on
Line 1Seoul Subway Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, formerly known as the Korea National Railroad of Seoul, is an operation channel which links central Seoul, South Korea to Soyosan Station in the northeast, Incheon in the southwest, and Sinchang via Suwon in the south. This line covers a large...
of the
Seoul SubwayThe Seoul Metropolitan Subway, in Seoul, South Korea, is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world, with well over 8 million trips daily on the system's fourteen lines...
network.
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Jegi-dong Station is a station on
Line 1Seoul Subway Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway, formerly known as the Korea National Railroad of Seoul, is an operation channel which links central Seoul, South Korea to Soyosan Station in the northeast, Incheon in the southwest, and Sinchang via Suwon in the south. This line covers a large...
of the
Seoul SubwayThe Seoul Metropolitan Subway, in Seoul, South Korea, is one of the most heavily used rapid transit systems in the world, with well over 8 million trips daily on the system's fourteen lines...
network.
This station is very close to the site of the former
Seongdong Station, the original western terminus of the
Gyeongchun LineThe Gyeongchun Line is a railway line connecting Seoul to Chuncheon in South Korea. The line is operated by the Korail. The name of the line came from Gyeongseong and Chuncheon...
from 1939 to 1971. Only a moments walk from the station is
Gyeongdong MarketGyeongdong Market or Kyungdong Market, located in the 1035 Jaegi-dong area of Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, is one of the largest herbal medicine and ginseng market of South Korea. Since its establishment in 1960, the market supplies 70 percent of the nation’s herbal medicine ingredients and has more than...
, a large, well known medicinal market, and the Seoul Yangnyeongsi Herb Medicine Museum
http://museum.ddm.go.kr/, a free museum dedicated to educating visitors about traditional Korean medicine.