Why I Love South Korea's SUPER RAPID TRAIN / Busan to Seoul
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Hello and welcome back to South Korea for a exciting highspeed train video!
Today we'll be travelling from South Korea's second largest city, Busan to the capital, Seoul on the country's private highspeed operator, SRT. Offering some stiff competition to the national operator Korail, and their highspeed KTX trains which run on the same route, so enjoy my video!
Date of Filming: 29/11/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: SRT
Departure: Busan, South Korea
Arrival: Seoul Suseo, South Korea
Cost: First Class - 76,300 Korean Won (£46, €52, $57)
Second Class - 52,600 Korean Won (£32, €36, $39)
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South Korea does have such amazing trains. South Korea is also a wonderful country in Asia.
Yes, but I much prefer Japan 🙃
Same 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip, why do you prefer Japan over South Korea?
@@Neville60001 Japan is next level.
@@NonstopEurotrip how about china
South Korea have great trains, i was there in February 2023 and took the KTX from Daejeon to Seoul and back. Good service and the ticket i booked online on the app. Very convenient!
Absolutely yes 😁💯
They went from having a slow non-airconditioned train services as late as the 90s to world class high speed trains in early 2000s was insane transformation in railway history
Wow! That is Incredible and Fantastic travel adventure, thank you for your informative video you shared, happy weekend😊
Thanks for visiting and I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊
Greetings from South Korea. Always glad to see Korean trains here and interestingly, I haven't taken the trains introducing on this channel :P Hope to take SRT soon. haha
You should!
Thanks again for showing my home country and my hometown Busan... I really miss them :(
I took SRT last April to Suseo from Busan. I loved it! Fast, clean and very friendly staffs.
Completely agree 👍🏻💯
I want to congratulate TGV and ICE for having their baby 😂
It's a boy, called TICE 😆
Or ICGV
Hahaha, very funny!
SHINKANSEN is the brother...
@@umbrobose1503 Shinkansen rules the family tree
Great review! I've never taken this service, but I've taken the original KTX out of central Seoul to Busan on the TGV trainsets. I used to always refer to KTX as the "only TGV whose first class I can actually afford" - I've indeed noticed that transportation in South Korea is a good value, compared to everything else which can be pricey.
French and Moroccan TGV First Class is actually remarkably affordable 🙃
It's not TGV...
@@WorldRailway1 I am fully aware. Read my original comment again - I said the original KTX (which was a TGV) rather than the Hyundai Rotem sets that are the KTX Sancheon and the SRT in this video.
absolutely loving these voiceovers. very nice video
Glad you like them! 😁
Thank you for your video and kind Korean subtitle. It was perfect!
You're welcome 😊
Great video !!
Glad you enjoyed it 😄
And SRT prices are relatively small degree cheaper than those of the same routes which connect Seoul and other cities by the difference of the place of main depots of both rail services in Seoul and route lines of Seoul and its neighbor Gyung-gi-do province
Indeed, yes!
I have tip for trip for you:
They renovated cog railway in High Tatras, now there are new trains that can also ride on train railway
They were doing it when I went last time, I'll be sure to go again soon! ✌🏻
Your real Better Video.
🥰🥰🥰
Excellent video! Nice train ride! Well done! Thumbs Up
Greetings from Dublin
Andrew
Thank you very much Andrew!
02:45, "There are no ticket or security checks before you're allowed to the platforms". Of course! This sounds obvious to any East-Asian or European but it comes as a big surprise to most US Americans and Canadians. North America is so obsessed with planes that it treats stations like airports, with "watiting lounges", luggage weighing (!), "boarding" processes etc. This is ridiculous and obliterates one of the great benefits of (high-speed rail) over air or road travel. Even America's impressive new high-speed operator Brightline spoils its travelers' experience by forcing them to arrive well in advance, go through a check-in and boarding process etc. Which inevitably extends the total travel time and sometimes completely obliterates the advantage of its high-speed trains over driving within Florida. In Europe, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, you hardly have any checks before boarding the train (I should say "stepping onboard" rather than "boarding"): some quick luggage screening for the Spanish AVE, some random checks for the Thalys - only the Eurostar has a genuine pre-boarding check process, because it travels through the Chunnel and because the UK is outside the EU. If Canada and the US want their current and future high speed and high frequency trains to be successful, they should just stop treating them like airplanes. Kudos to South Korea for understanding this!
Not true, much of Europe has ticket barriers and checks before access to the platform is granted
@@NonstopEurotrip Not true. I'm European, I know it full well.
@@majy1735 UK, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy all have ticket barrier at the majority of stations. So does all of Japan.
@@NonstopEurotrip True in France (at least in a main city station like Bordeaux), but only for some trains like the TGV, InOui and OuiGo. SNCF personnel use hand scanners to check QR codes on smartphones or paper. When the same tracks are used by regional trains, the access gates are open and unmanned. I use the TER regional trains between my home in Arcachon and Bordeaux. A small station like Arcachon has ZERO platform checks (I don't know if there is any kind of check for the one InOui departure for Paris every morning at 06h00). I live 200 meters from the station and can walk directly to the train, without going through the station building. Super easy.
@@NonstopEurotrip I live in the UK and know Europe's transport well. Been in all of those countries. Compared to just putting in a ticket into the barrier, the US/Can method is ridiculous
Adding a visual map from A to B makes your video a touch better.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Wow amazing SRT 수서행 TRAIN🚆😮
✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Have done the KTX from Seoul-Gyeong Ju, which is on the same route. Great journey and this vlog really brings it back. Also went on the newer own brand KTX to Gangneung via Pyeongchang. Also lots of viaducts and tunnels and only the Eastern end was dedicated high speed line. Incredible engineering -amazing country. Really looking forward to going back in March 24. Many thanks. 🇰🇷👍
Awesome! Thank you!
Very nice video! Greetings from busan/south korea
Thank you very much!
Good video and a really good way to travel from Busan to Seoul. The price is inexpensive enough that i could fit it in my budget. Keep making these videos!
Glad it was helpful! And I don't plan on stopping, just yet ✌🏻😂
Okay, your description of handicapped features just got you a subscription.
Thank you ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Another excellent video. I so envy you being able to do all this travelling, must be nice, lol.
I'm not gonna deny, it is great, although I do spend a lot of time in front of my computer too! For example, the last 4 weeks 😆
fantastic, really want to visit Korea
You should! I really enjoyed it Matthew ✌🏻
0:15
Seeing that trains are running in this section, you boarded the high-speed train passing through Seodaegu Station!
Although it is different from the route of the train in this video.
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Excellent. Will be on this in October when in Seoul
Excellent!!
@@NonstopEurotrip Any further tips would be appreciated; also any suitable day trips from Seoul by train?? Thanks again (still don't know your name....sorry)
Thank you for using and introducing Korean high-speed train.
The maximum operating speed of SRT trains is 305 km/h. This is the same as KTX.
As mentioned in the video
I reserved Mugunghwa-ho train Seoul to Busan. I hope you have a nice trip in korea.
Thank you! You too!
12:22 It is the station with the highest number of trains in Korea and the largest train station in Korea with 14 train platforms. Right in front of the station is a very large express bus terminal called the Dongdaegu Station Complex Transfer Center. Therefore, in Dongdaegu Station, high-speed railway, general railway, metropolitan railway (scheduled to open next year), urban railway, subway, express bus, intercity bus, city bus, taxi, large taxi, deluxe taxi, airport bus, and airport railroad (scheduled to open in 2030) etc. can be used. In the long term, as more railway lines are scheduled to open, the importance of Dongdaegu Station will increase even more, and the number of trains will also increase. The Daegu Metropolitan City government built Seodaegu Station even though Daegu Station exists next to Dongdaegu Station in order to prevent saturation in Dongdaegu Station.
East(Dong)Daegustation-DaeguStation-West(Seo)DaeguStation
Good info
Great video mate! It hit my soul ;)
*Seoul 🙃
Our tracks,soil,earth strength,,pubilc xings,animal disturbance,ground level natural calamities,all this halts us for high speed trains.
There's always a way 😁
South Korean trains are magnificent! It’s kind of cute they have their own versions of Thomas the tank engine too like Titipo Titipo and robot trains
😀😀😀
Thanks for riding that!!
No problem 👍
Very thorough video. Thank you.
Very welcome!
Actually SRT is a nationally operated company. SRT was originally created by government, but later in order to maximize profit and make competition against KTX, SRT was decided to be operated by private company. However, train, station, and railway maintenance and overall operation was done by Korail. So government decided that private SRT was not working out, and made SRT part of Korail, which is operated by government.
13:30 There is a notice that the vending machine's card component is temporarily under maintenance for some reason.
I did not work on all 4 trains I took
The video quality is good!
✌🏻✌🏻
Great trip, finally you try this train. Fun fact,even though this considered as Private High Speed Train Operator, but the company itself actually owned by many state owned companies in South Korea.
It's funny why they bothered lol
@@NonstopEurotrip based on Wikipedia, around 41% of SR Corporation stock is owned by Korail. Rest of them owned by Pensions Teacher and Two state owned Bank.
13:37 This is not true. Cards can be used at vending machines on all trains in Korea. In the video, only the SRT train was stuck saying that the card terminal was out of order, so you couldn't use it.
The 5 trains I used were all the same
thank you!visit korea
I did 😀
The latest EUM series of high speed EMUs address all of your points. They are very spacious inside.
Video already on the channel 😁
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks, I originally addressed this to another comment but somehow this got posted as a direct response to the video. Thanks
I've heard comments from several foreigners that the mobile booking experience for non-Koreans is terrible, what was yours like?
For korail it was absolutely fine, for SRT it was impossible. I had to book at the station as the don't take international cards online 😔
저도 타보고 싶네요
Would you try Indonesia fast train Jakarta - Bandung, it will launch on august 2023 for first time
I'll be there 😌
@@NonstopEurotrip official opening 18 August 2023, free ticket until 90 days
13:42 the machine does accept card but the lil sign above the reader translates to under maintenance sorry
So why there is 330km/h is written on the thumbnail if the train does not even travel at that speed?
Cry about it later 🚂
Maybe that is top speed, which this train did not
The design speed is 330kmh
The reversible seat is the best feature
Doesn't both me tbh
The SRT Company isn’t even that private because it is 51% Owned by Korail, the national operator
It was at the time of filming 😉
I used to live in South Korea from 2012-2015 and have been to Busan many times. The SRT wasn't available then.
Pyeongtaekjije used to be just a stop on Seoul Metro Line 1 which was just Jije Station. I used to live near this station. Pyeongtaek is a large city and has a nearby US Army Base and US Air Force Based. Many foreigners also live in this area.
Thanks for sharing ☺️
"There is step-free access available to all platforms by stairs..."
Good to know.
...?
At 2:59, you say "There is step-free access available to all platforms by stairs..."
To be fair, you mention lifts after that, but think about it: Step-free access by stairs. As a wheelchair user, I have to ask myself "If someone doesn't realise that "step-free by stairs" doesn't make sense, is the rest of the information provided accurate?
@@martinc.720 Would you rather I didn't mention it?
High speed train in south korea welcome to morocco
Nice share
50 years from now , US will have some high speed trains like these.
Only 50?
@@NonstopEurotripWhy are you so pessimistic about the US ?
take the Opposite Train, then its the Train to Busan like in that Zombie Movie! :)
🙃🙃🙃
Tàu rất đẹp tôi đã đi nhiều lần
동대구와 대전에 정차한다면 2시간 10분이 걸립니다. 그 열차는 SRT317이고, 09:00에 수서을 출발하여 11:10에 부산에 도착합니다.
As mentioned in the video
SRT and Korail are not really competing, as SRT's main shareholder is actually...Korail 😅
They can still complete 😉
Great video. Hello from India
Hello there!
It's too late to upload what I filmed in November 7 months later
And the background of SRT is political, so I personally want it to be integrated with KTX
It's a strange one, for sure!
No!
Barato y rápido, buen servicio, el único detalle que las maquinas expendedores no acepten tarjetas. 🇺🇾
I think they're meant to, it was just broken 💔
Ktx sancheon next please
It's the same 🙃
AW 🥰🥰🥰🥰
🤩🤩🤩
Seems like you didn't get much time in second class but did those seats also change directions?
They don't 😕
Will you consider doing some metro/commuter train reviews?
It's not really my thing, sorry!
Nice
😅very nice ,almost the Eurostar.😊
Ótimo video
It's my first time hearing your voice and I thought you sounded like Ben Whishaw
Idk who that is 😂
@@NonstopEurotrip Q in Daniel Craig's Bond movies lol
Oh! Idk about that ✌🏻🙃
Sr은 한국에서100년만에생긴코레일의경쟁사이며 srt라는열차를운영하고있읍니다
As stated in the video
No Zombies were involved in the making of this video
😂😂😂
Very nice video! Love the SRT. Would you do a video on Taiwan’s bullet train Shinkansen 700T from Japan? Thanks.
Coming up soon 😉
By European standards this is a nice train but a bit lacking compared to a Shinkansen. There is no level boarding, the seats don't line up with the windows and two rows share the same window blind. The loading gauge is narrower so the train is more cramped inside. The first class seats look quite cheap compared to a 700 series Shinkansen.
From the way people stand on the platform there are no door markings for people to line up at either, people are standing around and then walking to the doors once the train stops (like in Europe!).
On the other hand the price is quite reasonable (perhaps the only thing it does better than a Shinkansen)
Oh I agree, but Shinkansen is next level ✌🏻
Shinkansen windows are pretty terrible tbh, belong on an airplane not a train
@@ce1834 I like them. Perfect alignment
shinkansen on contrast have tiny windows
the level boarding comes at the expense of lower ceiling
combined with 3x2 seating makes it seem more cramped
the green car seats are better as you said but comes at 3x the price of the SRT
Ktx and srt are better overall
But 100000 train station in south Korea
?
1:16
Opened in 2003 -->
Opened in 2004
More like HS1 LGV Méditerranée Rhône-Alpes getting a K-pop flavour because the South Korean high-speed Network Is modelled after the French TGV network. Reason for it the TVM-430 block sign blue triangle French style Neutral section signs which has been present since the first high-speed line Seoul Daegu Ulsan Busan. Your train might be operated by a K-pop idol with a French Société Nationale Chemin du Fer Français TVM-430 instructor. If the KTX was based on Deutsche Bahn ICE network Linienzugbeeinflussung cable and slab tracks (Feste Fahrbahn) are visible.
😂😂😂
Haha i actually use this exact route a lot
It looks like semens velaro from the front
Ikr!!
13:38 Actually vending machine accepts cards and traffic cards
Not on the 3 trains i went on!
Usually if one card reader is down they' re all down
*Blah blah* I went back in time to Yesterday at around 1:30 PM CEST *blah blah blah.*
Btw, I'm too lazy to comment on who I am, and what not to comment on, due to being hot by heat, not by beauty.
*Top 1 things I hate about living in inner Andalusia in summer:*
*#1: The average earliest high temperature of 40°C is in June*
4:05 Now that's a good (And fake at the same time) mix of SNCF's TGV & Siemens Velaro High Speed Train.
It's kind of the things you learnt of the story of how SNCF's TGV & DB's ICE had a poor, rejected child and put them in South Korea not to be embarrassed about its shape 😂😂
Why the f*** didn't I watch this video earlier?😂😂
I don't know Pedro, you tell me 😛
Somehow I always get the feeling of the narrator gloating about the accomplishments of a country that most likely had absolutely nothing ( S.Korea MAY be an exception) to do with developing today's engineering marvels but merely used existing products and now looks like a rose on a dung heap.After all, was it easier to buy a Model T or to come up with the process to build one?
I agree, why make it yourself when you can buy it off the shelf?
🤔 No Zombies
😆😆😆
I spent two wonderful weeks in Korea last year, including a few nights in Busan. The KTX train is fantastic, on a par with the Shinkansen in Japan which I also experienced for the first time recently.
Thanks for sharing Shaun!
중속 정도 되는거 같어 ...
고속 이하 속도 . 😮
Strange comment
어? 그럼 고속은 몇 키로부터예요? 😅😅
ALL FUTURE RAIL SHOULD BE HIGH SPEED IF WE WANT TO BE SUPER POWER UP TO 2047
It's not practical in lots of places 😕
SRT is a different company from KTX.😂😂
As mentioned in the video
KTX doesn't run at 350km/h
Never said it did. The design speed is 350
Late-stage KTX-2/SRT trains manufactured since the mid-2010s have been designed at a speed of 352 km/h. Only the initial KTX introduced in 1998, the KTX-1 locally produced under license from the early to mid-00s, and the early KTX-2 manufactured in the late 00s have a design speed of 330km/h, slightly lower than the late KTX-2 mentioned earlier
Design speed is irrelevant, operating speed is important
Train to Busan, huh? Watch out for zombies!
@@CST1992 none present.
@@NonstopEurotrip You sure? Look for the white pupils
100% French technology ！
Nope.
It's not a French technology
! , , , , , , , , , Rawwwwr
Interesting that you say you can get step free access to the platforms via the stairs... 😂
Nice train - pity there's no proper onboard catering.
...and the lift... 🙃
サムネイルの350km/hってどこから来てるの？
The design speed of the train
Why did you put your feet against the wall on the train? That’s not polite....
?
😅is it posible from Busan to Japan with a big RR bridge?🤔
I don't think there's the will rn
Not easy, impossible.
Well...there are a few hurdles: Japan seemed to be interested but South Korea wasn't and still isn't really. The second problem is that the Korea Straight is quite earthquake prone which could be dangerous. That being said, based on that logic, the Seikan tunnel shouldn't have been built, so I am not as skeptical about it to be honest. I am all for it. ❤
No zombies?
😂😂😂
SRT is slightly faster
This is SRT
World's HSR Operating speeds as below -
China holds the record at 385kmph fuxing hao
Indonesia same 385kmph
European TGVs 340-350kmph and Saudi's 330kmph
Japan has the 3rd highest at 320kmph.
korea comes at 305kmph 4th
Taiwan has the oldest Shinkansen restricted at 300kmph
You wanna check your figures 😜
crap Chirona train & Indonesia (?) & and the rest. And in terms of design speed, Korea's KTX-Sancheon late-stage and SRT trains were built at 352km/h.
@@NonstopEurotrip i did check mine whats wrong with my figures care to point out?
@@hazelnut3794 crap korean shit trains ftw!
I don't want to know anything about china
Ummm Korean SRT 300 Km/h.
Design speed is 350
To be honest I really disliked the KTX. Unfortunately the SRT was already fully booked as we travelled on a Friday. I can’t really understand the hype of Korean trains. The seats were cramped, it is hard to get a ticket on weekends and you might be stuck without a train you can book and the website of Korail looks like from the early 2000s. It gets even worse if you used to be in Japan the days before. Shinkansen trains are so damn superior. I surely will give SRT a try next time in Korea but KTX is to be avoided when ever I can.
I believe this is a lot cheaper then the japanese one though.. so no complaints there.
Indeed yes. They're much more European than the Shinkansen
Doesn't look as good as Chinese Highspeed train or steady
History of rail transport in China / Wikipedia
_In 1978, during Deng Xiaoping's visit to Japan, he experienced the Shinkansen, the world's first high-speed rail. This sparked an interest in high-speed rail systems in mainland China._
Japan gave China the technology of Shinkansen, remember ?
@@marimarihosp3035 May be so but Chinese utilized technology from European as far I know but China is doing it far better than Japanese as demonstrated by having a coin upright for the trip of highspeed train which I don't think Japanese Highspeed train could achieve it.
@@computerjoy
I hear that some very important parts are imported from Japan, etc.
China’s High-Speed Rail: A Case Study in Independent Innovation/Yicai Global FEB 04 2021
_Over time, domestic inputs have substituted for foreign ones and today an estimated 90 percent of high-speed rail’s supply chain is made in China._
@@marimarihosp3035 I don't think so because Japan aren't the type to share
@@computerjoy
Maybe only you don't think so.
As my perspective, Korean railways are very expensive.
In India you can travel same distance by flight in cheaper than this price😅
It's a very different situation though
영국도 싱가포르 일본등 비행기 타고 해외에 가봤지만 정작 한국인인 난 ktx나 sr고속열차 타본적이 없다 서울 안가본지 20년이 넘었어 ㅎㅎ ᆢ 지금은 갈려고 해도 누워만 계시는 엄마 케어 때문 도통 시간이 나질않아 ᆢ 겨우 시간나면 한시간 거리인 부산에 무궁화호나 광역전철 타고 갔다오는 정도까지 ᆢ 😢
You need to try it 😜