The station was Seoul's main distribution center of charcoal briquettes in the 1950s and 1960s, extracted and manufactured in southern Gangwon province.

These briquettes were widely used by people to weather harsh winters when Korea was a developing country and recovering from the Korean War.

It is a station that still predominantly handles freight trains.

With the electrification and twin-tracking of the Gyeongchun Line, this station is the newly designated western terminus station (however, the Gyeongchun Line operates about 1 km west further till its de facto terminus, Sangbong).

This Seoul Metropolitan Subway station article is a stub.