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Korail Class 210000
🇰🇷 South Korea ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2014· South Korean high-speed train
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. ITX-Saemaeul: Minseong Kim· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. Korail ITX-Saemaul Class210000: Kouhosei· CC BY-SA 3.0
what is it?
The Korail Class 210000, also known as the EMU-150, is a South Korean higher-speed electrical multiple unit train manufactured by Hyundai Rotem and operated by Korail on ITX-Saemaeul services since 2014.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 12 years ago, in 2014.
- Top speed is 1.3× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 15 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 45 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 143 m long: about 32 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 376: 8 full city buses (~50 seats each).
multiple unit: A self-propelled train: motors are spread under the passenger cars, so no separate locomotive.
spec sheet
- built
- 2014
- in service from
- 2014
- number built
- 138
- kind
- multiple unit
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- operators
- Korea Railroad Corporation
- top speed
- 165 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 25 kV/60 Hz AC
- formation
- 6 cars per trainset, TC-MC-MC-TC-MC-TC, TC – trailer car, MC – motored (powered) car
- length
- 143 m
- weight
- 267 t
- capacity
- 376 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q16908552, Wikipedia: Korail Class 210000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.