Kwangbok station

{{Short description|Pyongyang Metro station}}

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| name = Kwangbok Station

| native_name = 광복역

| native_name_lang = ko

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| image = Pyongyang Metro - Kwangbok Station (15362246489).jpg

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| address = Mangyongdae-guyok, Pyongyang

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| platforms = 1

| tracks = 2

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| opened = 9 September 1978

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Kwangbok Station ({{Korean|광복역|光復驛}}) is the western terminus station on Hyŏksin Line of the Pyongyang Metro.{{cite web|url=http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/metrostats.html|title=the pyongyang metro statistics|website=pyongyang-metro.com|access-date=15 December 2017|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130191827/http://www.pyongyang-metro.com/metrostats.html|archivedate=30 January 2016}}

The station features a golden statue of Kim Il Sung as well as murals depicting slogan trees – trees engraved with revolutionary slogans from the time of the anti-Japanese struggle.{{Cite web | title = I was part of the first group of outsiders allowed to ride the entire North Korean subway system — here's what I saw | last = Davies | first = Elliott | work = Business Insider | date = 16 April 2016 | access-date = 17 April 2016 | url = https://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-metro-photos-2016-4?op=1 }} One of these, an embossed mural 70 times four meters in size, is called Lake Samji in Spring.{{cite book|title=The Pyongyang Metro|year=2004|location=Pyongyang|publisher=Korea Pictorial|page=[33]|id=No. 406173}}

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