A man was struck by a train and died Wednesday after he illegally entered railway tracks near Seoul's Gasan Digital Complex Station.
The accident caused delays in subway and KTX train operations for up to two hours, officials said, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The unidentified man got onto the KTX railway tracks near the subway station in southwestern Seoul and then was hit by a KTX train heading to Busan and killed, according to police and railway officials.
Subway trains on both directions of Line 1 and some KTX trains had been delayed as railway tracks were redirected in the aftermath of the accident.
Police are in the process of identifying the man and determining the cause of the accident.
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