Gwanggyo Jungang station

GwanggyoJungang (Ajou Univ.) Station is a major metro station located in Gwanggyo, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Jungang means "center" in Korean, denoting the station's central location in Gwanggyo. The station is close to Ajou University and its hospital.

GwanggyoJungang (Ajou University) Station
Korean name
Hangul	광교중앙역 (아주대)
Hanja	光敎中央驛 (亞洲大)
Revised Romanization	Gwanggyo jungang yeok Ajudae
McCune–Reischauer	Kwangkyo chungang yŏk Achutae
General information
Location	Iui-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do
Operated by	NeoTrans Co. Ltd.
Line(s)	Shinbundang Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Key dates
January 30, 2016	Shinbundang Line opened

Forming the downtown of Gwanggyo new city, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office is scheduled to be built here and it is directly surrounded by many large shopping malls such as Avenue France and World Square, a Lotte outlet and cinema and the popular Gwanggyo lake park and cafe street.

Underground bus transfer station

The station is the country's first subway station to have an underground bus transfer station which was planned to open in early March 2016, where screen doors are installed on bus platforms so bus riders from all over Suwon can transfer to the subway directly by walking down only one floor.[1]

References

1. "광교중앙(아주대)역 버스 환승 쎈터 방문기" (in Korean). 19 February 2016.

Preceding station		Seoul Metropolitan Subway		Following station
Sanghyeon toward Gangnam		Shinbundang Line		Gwanggyo Terminus
Sanghyeon toward Gangnam		Shinbundang Line		Suwon World Cup Stadium toward Gwanggyo