How South Korea Perfected the Bullet Train

High-speed rail usually falls into two camps: The Japanese Shinkansen (wide, distributed power) or the French TGV (narrow, locomotive power). South Korea’s KTX (Korea Train eXpress) is fascinating because it started as a clone of one and evolved into the other. Footage: Shutterstock Inquiries: behindasian@gmail.com Brought to you by the Behind Asian Team.