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Guro District, Seoul

Guro District (Korean: 구로구) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea, which was separated from Yeongdeungpo District on April 1, 1980.

Guro District, Seoul
Guro District, Seoul · Whoisgalt (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The place

Guro District (Korean: 구로구) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea, which was separated from Yeongdeungpo District on April 1, 1980. Located in the southwestern part of the city, where besides Yangcheon District and Geumcheon District, Guro District has an important position as a transport link which contains railroads, land routes from the rest of Seoul to the south of the country. The Gyeongbu and Gyeongin railway lines connect Seoul to Busan and Incheon. In addition, Seoul Metropolitan Subway lines 1, 2, and 7, and major highways intersect in Guro District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Guro District, Seoul

Airports
Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 11 km · Incheon (ICN), 39 km · Cheongju/Cheongju Air Base (K-59/G-513) (CJJ), 102 km
  • Cheongju → Guro District, Seoul
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · ₩15,750–21,000
  • Gonghang-ro → Guro District, Seoul
    11 km · quickest by road, 33 min · ₩2,010–2,680
  • Daegu → Guro District, Seoul
    234 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · ₩31,850–42,500
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No local-transport research exists yet for Guro District, Seoul

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Guro District, Seoul. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are ferry services to various points in China from the neighboring port city of Incheon.
  • Get inNo services run from Japan to Seoul; many Koreans take the coach, KTX or SRT trains to Busan, where several ferry and hydrofoil options are available.
  • Go nextMany tour companies offer DMZ tours which is a day trip from Seoul, the highlight of which is a village lying in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

From Wikivoyage: Seoul, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    43 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,254 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,416 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,488 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    1,660 km

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Next door to Guro District, Seoul

Guro District, Seoul is 3 km from Gwangmyeong, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.