Jegi-dong Station
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Jegi-dong Station is station #125 on Line 1
Seoul Subway Line 1
Seoul 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 Asan via Suwon in the south. This line covers a large part...

 of the Seoul Subway
Seoul Metropolitan Subway
The Seoul Metropolitan Subway or Metropolitan Subway in Seoul, 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 thirteen lines...

 network.

This station is very close to the site of the former Seongdong Station, the original western terminus of the Gyeongchun Line
Gyeongchun Line
The Gyeongchun Line is a railway line connecting Seoul to Chuncheon in South Korea. The line is operated by Korail. The name of the line came from Gyeongseong and Chuncheon. The line was reconstructed in a new alignment in its entirety in the 2000s...

 from 1939 to 1971. Only a moments walk from the station is Gyeongdong Market
Gyeongdong Market
Gyeongdong 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 Museumhttp://museum.ddm.go.kr/, a free museum dedicated to educating visitors about traditional Korean medicine.
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