Bucheon station
train station in South Korea
Bucheon station (Korean: 부천 (부천대); RR: Bucheon-yeok) is a ground level metro station located in Bucheon, South Korea. This station is on Seoul Subway Line 1. It was also once the southern terminus of the Gimpo Line, until its abandonment in 1980.
An E-Mart is located in the station itself. On the north side of the station there is a plethora of restaurants, bars, and pojang-macha (street food) stalls. To the south of the station there are bus stops for buses departing to Siheung.
The public source identifies “Bucheon station” as train station in South Korea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bucheon, station and train.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q246638. Authority coordinates are 37.484, 126.783. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bucheon station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.