Korail to book tickets for Lunar New Year 2025 from January 6-9.

ⓒYTN

Online and phone (customer center) reservations for next year's Lunar New Year train tickets will be held from the 6th to the 9th of next month.

According to the Korea Railroad Corporation (Korail) on the 26th, the Lunar New Year ticket reservation target is a train that runs from January 24 to February 2 next year.

Separate reservations will be made on January 6-7 next year in consideration of the weak in transportation such as routes, the disabled, and people of national merit (subject to transportation support), and will be made for all citizens on the 8-9th. All are conducted non-face-to-face and can be booked online (PC, mobile) and by phone (customer center ☎ 1544-8545).

Since only railway members are available online, non-members must sign up in advance.

Residual seats that have not been sold can be purchased on and off-line such as the website, Korail Talk, and station windows from 3 p.m. on January 9th next year.

Korail plans to strengthen the penalty for refunding tickets during the Lunar New Year special transportation period (January 24th to February 2nd next year) to minimize reservation default (no show) and supply seats to end users. It will change the current minimum penalty of 400 won from 1 day before departure to 2 days before departure, and raise it to 5% of the ticket receipt from 2 days before departure to 1 day before departure.

Penalties are applied at 10% until 3 hours before departure, 20% until departure time, and 30% until 20 minutes after departure.

Sanctions will also be strengthened to prevent unfair preoccupation of tickets using macro programs. Existing users suspected of using macros have been suspended for 20 minutes, but from this holiday, the suspension will be strengthened according to the number of detections, and members will be removed if caught three times. If you withdraw, you cannot rejoin for three years and do not receive KORAIL membership benefits.

It will also sternly deal with illegal transactions of tickets. In cooperation with major online second-hand trading platforms, we will focus on monitoring suspected illegal activities and push for a police investigation request and regular operation of ticket bulletin boards for suspected cases. In particular, from this holiday, the government plans to cooperate with the government to restrict open chat rooms for small media (SNS) for the purpose of ticket trading.