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This article relates the current status of rail-oriented international multimodal transport between the United States and South Korea. For this article, the issue will be on rail freight transport of United States of America as this mode is the most important mode for North America. Most of all, the objective of this paper is to provide a first approximation of the rail freight infrastructure developments and improvements in the continental United States rail network. So the methodology of this paper is to conduct comparative analysis with United States and South Korea in terms of GDP, trade volume, the current status of container terminal, the implementation of international multimodal transport. United States is well established in the field of rail transportation network. But South Korea has a very strong competitiveness in the field of road transportation.