A South Korean student rescued a Japanese woman who had fallen onto the tracks at JR Shin-Okubo Station in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo -- the same station where another South Korean was killed in 2001 while attempting to pull a drunken man from the tracks, sources said.</PARAGRAPH> <PARAGRAPH>The South Korean student, Shin Hyun Gu, 27, rescued an unidentified college student Sunday morning who was intoxicated when she fell onto the tracks.</PARAGRAPH> <PARAGRAPH>At the same station in January 2001, another South Korean student, Lee Soo Hyun, 26, was fatally struck by a train when he and another man jumped off the platform to try and rescue a third man who had fallen onto the tracks.</PARAGRAPH> <PARAGRAPH>Shin, who studies at the same Japanese-language school in Arakawa Ward where Lee had studied, said he 'instantly thought about' Lee when he went to rescue the woman.</PARAGRAPH> <PARAGRAPH>'Helped by my senior –

, I was able to summon much more strength than usual."

Shin's bravery was widely reported in the South Korean media Wednesday.

"I did what any Korean would do in that situation," the Yonhap News Agency quoted Shin as saying. The report said some 20 bystanders failed to provide assistance.

On Jan. 26, 2001, Lee Soo Hyun and Shiro Sekine, a Yokohama photographer, jumped onto the tracks at Shin-Okubo Station in an attempt to save Seiko Sakamoto, a 37-year-old plasterer from Saitama Prefecture from an oncoming train. All three were killed.

Lee's hometown of Busan erected a monument to him in May 2001.