TRAIN services started to return to normal in Korea today following the end of a 22-day strike by railway workers over the government's decision to grant a licence to a new affiliate operator to be set up by Korail to run the new Suseo KTX service.
KOREA's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has dropped plans announced earlier this month to allow a private company to operate high-speed services from the new Suseo station is southeastern Seoul which is due to open in 2015.
THE Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has unveiled plans to reform Korail over the next four years, which will create new business units under a holding company structure.
Korea's latest experimental high-speed train, Hemu430X, was unveiled in Changwon on May 16, and is now being tested with a view to achieving a new Korean speed record of 430km/h later this year, explains Dr G H Kang with Hyundai Rotem's R&D centre.
KOREA Rail Network Authority (KRNA) has selected a consortium led by LSIS, Korea, and including Ansaldo STS to supply the train control system for the 182km Honam high-speed line between Osong and Gwangju Songjeong, which is due to be completed by December 2014.
KOREA's national train operator, Korail, is fighting government plans to privatise the operation of a new high-speed service between Seoul Suseo and Busan and Mokpo when a new line opens in 2015 between the Suseo district of Seoul and Pyeongtaek on the existing high-speed line.