Bus service from Osong station to Incheon International Airport to begin on the 20th

[Financial News] Starting on the 20th, passengers will be able to board an intercity bus to Incheon International Airport at the bus transfer center at Osong station.
According to the National Agency for Administrative City Construction on the 10th, the bus will make two round trips a day, departing from Platform 8 at the Osong station bus transfer center. It will leave Osong station at 4 a.m. and 5 p.m. and travel via Ochang, where Cheongju North Bus Terminal is located.
Until now, the transfer center had been operated as a space exclusively for city buses under an agreement between Korail and Cheongju City, so intercity buses bound for Incheon International Airport could not enter.
North Chungcheong Province consulted with Korail and submitted a related proposal to the Metropolitan Transportation Council for the Multifunctional Administrative City Region, organized by the National Agency for Administrative City Construction. Relevant agencies, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the agency, Cheongju City and Korail, then discussed ways to allow the route.
This past May, residents, led by the Osong Village Heads' Council, submitted a signature sheet calling for intercity bus service. Conditions for operation were then put in place when the agreement was amended on September 28 to allow, as an exception, routes separately agreed upon by Cheongju City and Korail's Daejeon-Chungnam Headquarters.
Kang Byeong-gu, head of the Transportation Planning Division at the National Agency for Administrative City Construction, said, "We will continue to work through the Metropolitan Transportation Council for the Multifunctional Administrative City Region to resolve local transportation issues together and improve regional transport access to Sejong, the administrative capital, as well as the convenience of using public transportation."
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