KINTEX Concert: Which Building, Which Hall, Which Exit

Last verified August 31, 2026

This page is for someone who already holds a ticket to a show at 킨텍스, the Korea International Exhibition Center in Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang. It covers reading the hall number on that ticket, choosing your station exit, getting in, leaving a bag, and getting home, in that order. Buying the ticket belongs to whichever seller your show uses, so that is not covered here. Read this before you set off rather than on the platform, because the hall number decides which of two separate buildings you walk into.

Halls 1 to 5 and halls 6 to 10 are two different buildings

Halls 1 to 5 are in KINTEX 1, written 제1전시장 on Korean signage. Halls 6 to 10 are in KINTEX 2, 제2전시장. So the building changes between hall 5 and hall 6, and the number printed on your ticket is what tells you which one is yours.

A notice that names Event Hall rather than a number is pointing at hall 6, which is the hall the floor-plan image labels that way. So a notice using the name and a ticket using a number can send you to the same room, and hall 6 sits in KINTEX 2.

Between the buildings, the overview page describes a public walkway 100m wide, crossed by moving walkways. Neither page read here puts a walking time on that crossing. So if your party holds hall numbers on both sides of hall 5, plan for two buildings and a walk between them, not one lobby.

Which exit at KINTEX Station, and how deep the platform sits

For a map app, the address is 217-60 킨텍스로 (Kintex-ro), Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do. No page read here gives a separate address per building. The pages read here carry that one address in a common footer, including the separate hall pages for each building, and NOL World attaches the same address to its page for the first exhibition hall. So the hall number does the work an address normally would.

KINTEX Station sits on the GTX-A line. The railway operator’s own station page calls it a 단독역사, a standalone station with no interchange. Its exits split the site the way the hall numbers do. Exit 1 is listed for 킨텍스 제1전시장 and for 고양종합운동장 (Goyang Stadium). Exit 5 is listed for 킨텍스 제2전시장 and 킨텍스 온누리공원 (Onnuri Park).

Exit 1 also carries Goyang Stadium on the same line. That matters if your next show is at that stadium, because Goyang Stadium’s own directions name a different station, and Seoul Metro posts a last train for each Line 3 destination out of Daehwa.

The operator gives the station structure as B7, seven levels below ground. The station page gives no time for the climb out, and no page read here gives one either. Treat the ride up as time on top of the walk, not as part of it.

NOL World’s English page puts the walk from GTX-A KINTEX Station at about 10 minutes. Elsewhere on the same page it gives a 9 min walk, and that figure names Exit 1 as the door. It also gives 대화역 (Daehwa Station) as about an 11-minute walk, roughly 700m. It routes you out of Exit 1, past the Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang building and across the crosswalk.

The page does not say which of the two buildings any of those figures was measured to, and Exit 1 and Exit 5 face different ones.

One part of the KINTEX transport page needs care. Its subway section lists many line numbers, but each entry is a route that transfers onto GTX-A. The transfer points it names include 대곡역 (Daegok), 연신내역 (Yeonsinnae, which is on Lines 3 and 6) and Seoul Station. Those line numbers are transfer origins rather than services that stop here, which the station page confirms in its interchange field.

The same transport page shows six bus stops around the site, and the stop labels are the strings to type into a bus app. Only two of the six carry a building number: 킨텍스 제1전시장 and 킨텍스 제2전시장. Three more carry the venue name without a number, as 킨텍스 on its own, as 한국건설기술연구원, 킨텍스, and as 킨텍스후문, 현대백화점. On that list the sixth, 힐스테이 일산, 현대모터스튜디오고양, does not carry the name at all. So type the building number whenever your ticket gives you one. The map’s own alternative text is where the positions are described. It puts the KINTEX 1 stop by that building’s main entrance, on the Line 3 side. It puts the KINTEX 2 stop by Gate 3, and the shared stop below Gate2 on the KINTEX 1 side and Gate3 on the KINTEX 2 side. The English edition of that page lists the same stops by their stop numbers, and leaves the building out.

From Incheon Airport, NOL World names airport limousine bus 5600 and a stop it calls KINTEX Exhibition Center 1 in its own wording. The Korean transport page carries the same route as 5600 공항, the airport service, running between 문산고속버스정류소 (the Munsan express bus stop) and Incheon Airport Terminal 2, third floor, every 40 to 260 minutes. The English edition of that page has no row for route 5600, so a reader working from the English site would not find it there. If you are routing through the city first, the ways into Seoul from Incheon Airport are covered separately.

Getting in: the same gate number lands on two buildings

The floor plan and the transport page label the doors differently, and the difference falls along the building line. On the floor plan, the KINTEX 2 side carries gate numbers: Gate 1, Gate 2, Gate 3 and Gate 4 all sit on that building. The KINTEX 1 side of the same plan carries Entrance labels instead. They run Entrance 1A to 1D, Entrance 2, 3 and 4, and Entrance 5A and 5B, with an EXIT 2 on the 대화역 side.

The transport page then writes 킨텍스 1 전시장 Gate2, meaning Gate2 at exhibition building 1, in a bus stop caption. NOL World uses the same number again without naming a building, telling you that if you leave the venue near GATE 2 after the show, the closest bus stop is the one called 킨텍스 (KINTEX).

So a bare Gate 2 is not enough: the floor plan puts that number on KINTEX 2 and the transport page puts it on KINTEX 1. Name the building out loud before the gate number.

The floor plan is also where the English site loses the most. On the Korean overview page, the alt text of that image spells out the entrances, the gate numbers, the direction of both stations and a site notice.

On the English page the same image carries the alt text 제1전시장, 제2전시장 맵 이미지, which is Korean for a map image of exhibition centre 1 and exhibition centre 2, untranslated. So if you need the gate labels as text, open the Korean overview page instead, or call 031-995-8033, the number KINTEX publishes for concert and festival enquiries.

Which gate a particular show uses is not something the pages read here settle. Start with your own ticket notice, and use that number if the notice leaves the door open.

Where to leave a bag, and what the halls charge

Two pages say opposite things about lockers at the station. The GTX-A operator’s facility table for KINTEX Station lists 물품보관함, luggage lockers, among the passenger facilities. NOL World’s English page says “No lockers at GTX-A Kintex Station”.

They are not the same kind of document: one is the company that runs the station, the other an English guide page on a ticket seller’s site. The operator’s facility tables for this station do mark absences: the mobility-aid table prints an X against a powered-wheelchair fast charger. A listed locker is therefore not simply an unfilled cell.

Whichever page is right about the station, the halls publish lockers of their own, and the table above carries where and how much. The limit that changes your evening is not the price but the hours. The support facilities page puts the lockers inside the exhibition hall opening times, and adds that closing time can move with the event schedule. So the bag you drop off on the way in comes back on the venue’s clock rather than on yours.

If you are driving, the overview page gives 4,200 spaces in the main car park and 4,000 in the temporary lots. For cars and vans, and for small goods vehicles under 2.5 tonnes, the parking page charges KRW 1,240 for the first 20 minutes and KRW 620 for each 10 minutes after that, to a daily cap of KRW 19,000. Heavy goods vehicles of 2.5 tonnes or more and buses of 25 seats or more are priced on their own line. Leaving within 20 minutes of entry is free, and past 20 minutes the charge counts from the moment you drove in.

One notice on the floor plan is dated by the day you read it. When the image was read on 2026-08-31, it carried a line saying the KINTEX 1 car park is not in operation. The wording gives construction as the reason, and no end date is printed with it.

That pushes drivers toward the temporary lots in 대화동 (Daehwa-dong), where the page charges KRW 620 per 10 minutes to a cap of KRW 6,500. Two limits come with that rate. The parking page says the lots run according to the size of the event rather than all the time. And it posts their hours as 08:00 to 18:30, which shuts before an evening show comes out. For a KINTEX 2 ticket the floor plan still shows that building’s own parking: an underground car park of 1,881 spaces, and a ground-level lot reached from Gate 3.

Getting home: the last train, and the bus that stops first

GTX-A posts a last train toward Seoul from KINTEX Station at 00:42, with the first in that direction at 05:34 in the morning. The evening thins out before that last departure. Trains run 10 minutes apart early in the 22:00 hour, then 15 minutes apart from 22:34 through 00:04, and the last two gaps stretch to 18 minutes and then 20.

The timetable read here posts a single set of times, with no weekday, Saturday or holiday tabs and no day selector. That is what the page shows, rather than a statement that every day runs alike. So do not carry 00:42 into a Saturday plan without checking it again.

Line 3 at 대화역 (Daehwa) is the other rail option. NOL gives 23:03 as the last train from Daehwa, and marks that figure as the weekend schedule. Seoul Metro posts a last train for each destination out of Daehwa rather than one for the station, which the Goyang Stadium article linked above sets out.

Buses are where the trap sits for anyone flying out. NOL World lists a last M7731 toward Hongdae at 01:30, and a last 1100 toward Gwanghwamun at 23:55.

NOL World gives 19:50 as the last 5600 to Incheon Airport, the earliest of the last departures it lists here. The Korean transport page posts the same time against that route without naming the direction. It labels the two ends 기점 and 종점, origin and terminus, rather than saying which of those is 문산 (Munsan) and which is the airport. The page does not say whether 19:50 is a departure or an arrival either. So treat it as an evening deadline to confirm with the bus operator, not as a departure you can time a flight to.

KINTEX’s own transport page describes those express routes from the site’s side, and names their ends differently from NOL. It gives M7731 as running between 하이파크시티 (Hi Park City) and Exit 1 at 공덕역 (Gongdeok Station). It gives route 1100 as running between the Goyang bus depot and 숭례문 (Sungnyemun, in central Seoul).

The two language editions of that page then post different headways for the same routes. For M7731 the Korean edition gives 7 to 11 minutes on weekdays, 9 to 12 on Saturdays and 12 to 14 on Sundays. The English edition of the same page gives 10 to 15 minutes on weekdays and Saturdays, and 20 to 25 on Sundays. Nothing on either page says which one is current, so budget for the slower pair.

Route 1100 splits wider: the Korean edition posts 90 to 110 minutes on weekdays and 180 at weekends, while the English edition posts 70 to 80 minutes on weekdays and Saturdays and 100 on Sundays. On the Korean figure a missed weekend 1100 is a three-hour wait, which is long enough that the train stops being the fallback and becomes the plan.

The same two editions also split on when M7731 stops for the night. The Korean edition posts 01:30 at the far end of the run where the English edition posts 01:00, and NOL World’s figure matches the Korean one. So take the earlier time as your deadline if you are counting on that bus. The route lists differ as well: 5600 appears only in the Korean edition, 999 and 33 only in the English one, and the two editions give routes 55 and N007 different endpoints under the same number.

For a taxi, NOL World gives the fare from KINTEX to Seoul Station as about KRW 30,000 over roughly 30 km in a regular taxi. That is the guide page’s own estimate rather than a published tariff. The same page warns that a taxi is hard to hail after a performance, and says to head toward 현대백화점 킨텍스 (Hyundai Department Store KINTEX) or to pre-book through a ride-hailing app.