It is on the national high-speed KTX railway network, 282 km (175 mi) south of Seoul Station.

[1] The station opened in 1962 and KTX trains on the Gyeongbu Line began services on April 1, 2004, shortly after the completion of the new building earlier that year.

Dongdaegu station serves all KTX trains on the Gyeongbu Line.

Dongdaegu station features in the 2016 zombie horror film Train to Busan.

This article about a railway station in South Korea is a stub.