KTX Korea: A 600km Day Trip That Turned Distance into Family Time

KTX bullet trains lined up at Seoul Station platform ready for departure

There are exactly two things that can make a grown man leave his warm bed at 6am without complaint: a flight to catch, and a parent in a hospital bed 300 kilometers away. My father had just come out of knee replacement surgery at a hospital in Daegu. We were in Ilsan, just northwest of