Itaewon station
train station in South Korea
Itaewon is a station on Line 6 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway. It takes its name from the neighborhood in which it is located in, also called Itaewon. There are many shops and restaurants for foreigners located close to Itaewon Station.
Station layout
Vicinity
Exit 1 : Hamilton Hotel
Exit 2 : Pakistani, Egyptian, Ecuadorian, Argentine Embassies in Korea
Exit 3 : Bogwang Elementary School
Exit 4 : Itaewon Market
Tourism
In January 2013, the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation, which operated the line and the station until Seoul Metro took over in 2017, distributed free guidebooks from the station. These were printed in three languages: English, Japanese and Chinese (simplified and traditional), which features eight tours as well as recommendations for accommodations, restaurants and shopping centers.
On October 29, 2022, the immediate vicinity of the station was the site of a human crowd crush.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Itaewon station” as train station in South Korea. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as train station in South Korea. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q490082. Authority coordinates are 37.534, 126.994. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2017 and 2022.
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This entry incorporates text from “Itaewon 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.