Gimpo Goldline Gimpo Goldline The Gimpo GoldLine () is a future subway line scheduled to open in November 2018 and was pushed back to July 2019. Under the third mayor of Gimpo City, Kim Dongsik (김동식), the line was going to be an extension of Line 5. This idea was rejected by Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation (now Seoul Metro) as they wanted to build a subway yard in the town of Yangchon-eup. Construction is expected to cost 1.6503 trillion won with 1.2 trillion from Korea Land and Housing Corporation. Two car vehicles will operate at intervals of three minutes during peak
Gimpo International Airport on Gimpo, destroying two or three of the seven Yak-7s there and damaging the runway. On 5 August 5th Air Force fighters strafed and bombed Gimpo, destroying 9 aircraft and damaging 9 others. Following the Inchon landings on 15 September 1950, the 2nd Battalion 5th Marines was ordered to seize Gimpo on 17 September. Gimpo was defended by a conglomeration of half-trained fighting men and service forces and by the morning of 18 September the Marines had secured the airfield. The airfield was in excellent shape as the North Koreans had not had time to do any major demolition. On