Gimpo International Airport: Is located in the far western end of Seoul, some 15 km (9 mi) west of the Central District of Seoul. Gimpo was the main international airport for Seoul and South Korea before being replaced by Incheon International Airport in 2001. In 1958, Gimpo was designated as the international airport of Seoul, completely replacing the existing Yeouido Airport. Following the construction of Gimpo, Yeouido Airport was totally demolished. It soon became the main airport of Seoul and South Korea in general. In 1971, a new combined domestic and international terminal was opened. However, following the opening of Terminal 1 in 1977, the original terminal was converted to domestic flights only. Later, Terminal 2 was opened due to the Olympic Games. However, Gimpo began to take more flights than it is capable of handling. Since 1980, Gimpo met a lot of problems, due to its lack of space to expand. A major problem is that it has a curfew, which means arrivals and departures are strictly prohibited during the night. Due to these problems, the South Korean government decided to build a new airport. It was actually planned in Cheongju, 124 kilometres away from Seoul, but it was strongly opposed by Seoul and Gyeonggi Province citizens due to its inconvenience (it would be farther away than Viracopos Airport in Campinas, Brazil, which is approximately 80 kilometres away from the city of SĂŁo Paulo). Finally, the new site was decided to be nearby Yeongjong Island, a part of Incheon. This was later known as Incheon International Airport. All international flights were moved to Incheon when it opened in 2001, and Gimpo has only served domestic flights from then on
Domestic Terminal: 6 Airlines
Incheon International Airport: is the largest airport in South Korea, the primary airport serving the Seoul Capital Area, and one of the largest and busiest airports in the world. Since 2005, it has been rated the best airport worldwide by Airports Council International every year.[2] It is also rated as the world's cleanest airport and the world's best international transit airport. The airport has a golf course, spa, private sleeping rooms, an ice skating rink, a casino, indoor gardens, and a Museum of Korean Culture. Airport authorities claim that average departure and arrival takes 19 minutes and 12 minutes respectively, as compared to worldwide average of 60 minutes and 45 minutes respectively, ranking it among of the fastest airports in the world for customs processing International Terminal: 88 airlines The airport opened for business on March 29, 2001 to replace the older Gimpo International Airport, which now serves mostly domestic destinations and shuttle flights to several East Asian metropolitan areas including Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taipei.
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Cargo: 45 Airlines
International Terminal: 15 airlines
INC int Airport to seoul city hall = 52 min.
GMP int Airport to seoul city hall = 32 min.
Cargo: 8 Airlines
Distance: 48.5 KL
Distance: 16.9 KL
Daily subway service frequency on weekdays was 4,486 times (2012), and it increased dramatically with the opnening of the shinbundang line
Along with the expansion of the metropolitan area, the importance of a well-balanced metropolitan transportation network are becoming gretaer. Metropolitan transportation network in the metropolitan areas can be divided into the railroad systems, which includes subways and nationalrailroads, and the road system, which refer to expressways and other national roads. the metropolitan areas have 311.5 km subaway, 489.3 km national railways, 800.7 km in total, metropolitan expressways including the outer ring highway extend 373.5 km into 14 lines, the west Coast expressway, the chunhbu expressway andkyonging expressways are linking the major cities of the metropolitan areas.
The daily service frequency of the subway on weekdays gradually decreased from 2003 until 2010 before increasing dramatically starting in 2011. The reason for the fall in the service frequency in 2008 was that Seoul Metro had increased the service intervals due to a drop in the transportation demand resulting from school breaks and as a means to save energy. With the opening of the Shinbundang line on October 29, 2011 the absolute subway service frequency increased again.
In preparation for the stablishment of the metropolitan transportation network, the minister of construction and transportation is working on a metropolitan area main road networks that would include the construction of new roads, 27 section with 861 km in total and road expansions in 10 sections covering 1,582 km.
23.1%
26.9% 6.9%
27.4%
7.4%
Bussines [1996 - 2,575,925] to [2010 - 2,891,680]
0.83%
Communting to work [1996 - 4,604,233] to [2010 - 12,210,551]
-0.90%
Commuting to School [1996 -2,377,459] to [2010 - 2,096,079]
1.82%
26.0% 34.6% 38.2%
Shopping [1996 - 1,224,436 ] to [2010 - 1,031,422]
Going to an Acade [1996 - 700,002] to [2010 - 959,837] Returning Home [1996 - 10,290,250 ] to [2010 - 12,210,561]
Other [1996 - 3,325,134] to [2010 -3,827,755]
1996
Send Off [1996 - 225,392] to [2010 - 193,773]
2002 The number of public transportation trips in 2010 was 28,037,000, a 26.7% increase from 1996.
The total number of trips made in Seoul in the morning rush hour in 2010 was 5,922,000, which was an increase of 1,126,000 from 2002.
a review of the changes in the number of bus trips in the Seoul Metropolitan Area 1996 to 2010 showed that it had increased by 1,936,000 from 13,571,000 in 1996 to 15,506,000 in 2010 . As for the number of trips via the subway and railway, it increased by 3,977,000 from 8,552,000 in 1996 to 12,529,000 in 2010.
The total number of trips made in Seoul in the morning rush hour (peak hour) increased by 1,126,000 from 4,796,000 in 2002 to 5,922,000 in 2010. The trips made within Seoul showed an average annual increase of 2.02%, while the number of trips made from and to Seoul increased more significantly at an average annual increase of 4.63%.
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2.28%
1.23%
1.01% -1.07%
Population of the Metropolitan Area has been increasing since 1960s. While Seouls population stayed stagnant, the population in the metropolitan areas continues to increase, which means suburbanization has expanded over the Soul boundary. Population increases in the metropolitan areas since 1980s are in the south-western part of Kyonggi-do province within the radius of 30 km, along the axises of Seoul-Incheon and Seoul-Pusan, from the downtown of Seoul. Since the late 1990, the metropolitan areas experienced a rapid expansion due to the developments of new towns in Koyang and Songnan and quasi- agriculture regions in Yongin, Namyagju, Kwangju, and Kimpo.
2011 population 300,000 0ver
The number of employees at industries and business entities is an important index showing economic and a industrial basis of a region concerned. Though Seoul is showing a slight increase in the number of employees, its relative portion to the nation is continously decreasing. On the other hand, Kyonggi-do areas relative gravity to the nation is increasing due to the expansion of Seoul. The spatial changes in indutrial and business employees show a parallel increase with the Seoul-Incheon and Seoul-Pusan Axies.