Osan City Resumes Intercity Bus Service to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal from September

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park Chan-hyuk] Osan City will formally operate intercity bus service to and from Jamshil Station (Seoul Metro Line 2) and East Seoul Terminal (Seoul Metro Line 2) starting in September.

The Pyeongtaek-bound intercity bus service to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal, which was suspended on February 28 last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now be reopererated as an Osan-bound service to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal.

On the 28th, the city signed a financial support MOU with KD Transport Group for intercity bus service departing from Osan (Osan Station) to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal at the city office situation room.

The MOU signing ceremony was attended by key officials including Osan Mayor Lee Gwon-jae, KD Transport Group CEO and Chairman Heo Sang-jun, and Executive Director and Senior Managing Director Heo Deok-haeng.

Through this agreement, the newly established intercity bus service from Osan to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal will operate 8 round trips daily, and the city plans to determine whether to increase service based on ridership demand monitoring.

Mayor Lee stated at the MOU signing ceremony, "Jamshil Station and East Seoul Terminal in Seoul are major stops for intercity and metropolitan bus routes, and given the high convenience of transfers to subway and express, metropolitan, and general buses, there was strong demand from citizens for new routes. I am pleased that we are resuming service this time," and added, "We will make every effort to establish measures to improve metropolitan transportation going forward."

KD Transport Group Chairman Heo Sang-jun also responded, "The resumption of intercity bus service to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal is an achievement made possible by the drive and efforts of Mayor Lee Gwon-jae and city officials," adding "We will do our best to ensure that Osan City residents have no inconvenience in using bus service."

Meanwhile, the city plans to make every effort to establish two new intercity bus routes by December as a measure to expand metropolitan bus service in Sejiao District 2: one departing from Sejiao District 2, passing through Sejiao District 1, bound for Bundang and Yatap in Seongnam, and the other to Jamshil and East Seoul Terminal.