Incheon Grand Park

Jangsu-dong Ginkgo Tree: Incheon’s 800-Year-Old Village Guardian

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The 800-year-old Jangsu-dong ginkgo tree in Incheon covered in golden autumn leaves under a clear blue sky

The Jangsu-dong ginkgo tree has been standing at the edge of what is now Incheon for about 800 years. It was already old when the villages around it were still farmland, and it is still here now that a highway runs past its hillside and a giant city park sits across the road. In autumn, … Read more

Incheon Grand Park: Where Every Incheon Kid Went on a School Picnic

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Aerial view of Incheon Grand Park in autumn with a large lake surrounded by colorful trees and low hills

Incheon Grand Park is the place almost every kid in Incheon has been walked to at least once, lunchbox in hand, while a teacher counts heads at the gate. For me it was more than once. Whenever my school, and later my church, needed somewhere green and big enough for a few hundred people to … Read more