Kwangbok station

Pyongyang Metro station
Preceding station Pyongyang Metro Following station
Terminus Hyoksin Line Konguk
towards Ragwon

Kwangbok Station (Korean: 광복역; Hanja: 光復驛) is a station on Hyŏksin Line of the Pyongyang Metro.[1]

The station features a golden statue of Kim Il Sung as well as murals depicting slogan trees – trees engraved with revolutionary slogans from the time of the anti-Japanese struggle.[2] One of these, an embossed mural 70 times four meters in size, is called Lake Samji in Spring.[3]

References

  1. ^ "the pyongyang metro statistics". pyongyang-metro.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2016. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  2. ^ Davies, Elliott (16 April 2016). "I was part of the first group of outsiders allowed to ride the entire North Korean subway system — here's what I saw". Business Insider. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  3. ^ The Pyongyang Metro. Pyongyang: Korea Pictorial. 2004. p. [33]. No. 406173.

External links

  • Media related to Kwangbok station (Pyongyang Metro) at Wikimedia Commons
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