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{{Short description|Name for Seoul–Busan corridor in Korea}}
{{One source|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox Korean name/auto
|hangul=^경부
|hanja=京釜
}}
The name '''Gyeongbu''' refers to the [[Seoul]]–[[Busan]] corridor in [[South Korea]]. It is used as the name of the [[Gyeongbu Line|Gyeongbu railway line]] and [[Gyeongbu Expressway]], both of which connect Seoul&mdash;the South Korean capital and largest city&mdash;to Busan&mdash;the largest port and second-largest city. The name "Gyeongbu" is formed from the first characters in the names "[[Gyeongseong]]" 경성 ({{linktext|京|城}}) and "Busan" 부산 ({{linktext|釜|山}}).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Korean Journal of Policy Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgZ5HoCtdcAC|year=2014|publisher=Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University|pages=135–137|access-date=2021-02-04|archive-date=2021-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207125636/https://books.google.com/books?id=NgZ5HoCtdcAC|url-status=live}}</ref>

==References==
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==See also==
* [[Transportation in South Korea]]

[[Category:Transport in South Korea]]