KTX Train Guide for Foreign Travelers: Tickets, Seats and Station Tips
KTX Train Guide for Foreign Travelers: Tickets, Seats and Station Tips A practical KTX guide for Korea: where to book, how to read your ticket, choose the right station, board smoothly and handle luggage. KTX is the simplest high-speed option for many trips between major Korean cities. Photo: Minseong Kim , CC BY-SA 4.0 . Korea's high-speed trains make a two-city trip surprisingly easy. You can eat breakfast in Seoul, spend the afternoon in Busan or Gyeongju, and avoid the airport routine entirely. The train itself is straightforward; the details that trip up first-time visitors are usually the booking website, the departure station and the platform display. KTX is operated by Korail, while SRT is a separate high-speed service that mainly uses Suseo Station in southeastern Seoul. They overlap on some destinations, but a ticket for one operator is not a flexible pass for the other. Treat the train name, station and departure time as three separate items to ...