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Centum station

railway station operated by Korea Railroad Corporation in Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1234112
Source-derived summary

Centum station (Korean: 센텀역; formerly Suyeong station) is a railway station operated by Korail on the Donghae Line in U-dong, Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea. The former station name is unrelated to the station of the same name of the Busan Metro. Suyeong station was renamed to Centum station on December 30, 2016. It is also served by Mugunghwa-ho and ITX-Maum on the Donghae Line.

Editorial summary

“Centum station” enters the record as railway station operated by Korea Railroad Corporation in Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Centum, station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Centum, station and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Centum station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Centum, station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1234112. Authority coordinates are 35.179, 129.125. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Centum station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Centum station primary sources, Centum station archive and Centum research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Centum station”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Centum 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.