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KTX-Cheongryong
🇰🇷 South Korea ·built by Hyundai Rotem· from 2024· a South Korean high-speed electrical multiple unit train manufactured by Hyundai Rotem and operated by Korail
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4 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Korail KTX-Cheongryong, Guro (20241103a) (54220770284): Takeshi Aida from Hong Kong, Hong Kong· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 2. KTX-Cheongryong Waiting at Seoul Station: 생각하는 나무· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. Korail KTX-Cheongryong, Guro (20241103b) (54220770159): Takeshi Aida from Hong Kong, Hong Kong· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 4. KTX-Cheongryong: 국토교통부· KOGL Type 1
what is it?
The KTX-Cheongryong (Korean: KTX-청룡; Hanja: KTX-靑龍), also known as Korail Class 160000 or EMU-320, is a South Korean high-speed electric multiple unit train manufactured by Hyundai Rotem and operated by Korail. It is the second domestically designed and developed high-speed EMU in commercial service (the first being KTX-Eum) in South Korea, which marks the departure of the country's high-speed rail rolling stock from TGV-style power car-unpowered trailer configuration.
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 2 years ago, in 2024.
- Top speed is 2.7× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 7 minutes.
- 9.1 MW is about 107 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 73 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 199 m long: about 44 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 515: 10 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 2024
- in service from
- 2024
- number built
- 48
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- builders
- Hyundai Rotem
- designer
- Citrusdesign
- operators
- Korea Railroad Corporation
- top speed
- 352 km/h
- power
- 9.1 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- overhead catenary
- formation
- 8 cars per trainset, TC-M'-M-M-M-M-M'-TC, TC - Trailer Control car, M - Motor car, M' - Motor car with Pantograph
- length
- 199 m
- weight
- 437 t
- capacity
- 515 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q28699557, Wikipedia: KTX-Cheongryong (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.