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 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
In our guide to the Ara Waterway at Gyeyang Bridge, we followed the canal path where Korea’s cross-country bike route begins. Keep going a little further along that same waterway and you reach a place even fewer outsiders know about — a wetland park where a wooden boardwalk winds through tall reeds and dense trees, … Read more
If you follow Korea’s most famous long-distance cycling route from the very beginning, this is where it starts. The Ara Cycleway runs dead straight along a canal from the Yellow Sea all the way to the Han River in Seoul — and the stretch around Gyeyang Bridge, just a short walk from Gyeyang Station, is … Read more
Most visitors to Songdo never look up. They come for Central Park, ride the paddle boats, take a few photos of the skyline, and leave. But one of the best free views in the entire Incheon area sits on the 33rd floor of an office building most tourists walk right past — the twisted, notch-cut … Read more
Stand on the low hill above Cheongna Camping Park at sunset and you’ll see something that shouldn’t quite make sense: rows of family tents glowing in the evening light, a Costco sign, an elevated highway, and a wall of gleaming apartment towers on the horizon — all at once. It looks like a campsite that … Read more
Most visitors to Korea never think of Incheon as anything but the airport. But if you follow the subway a few stops inland, you arrive at a neighborhood that hosted one of the most euphoric nights in Korean sporting history — and that, on an ordinary evening, turns into one of the loveliest quiet corners … Read more
Most first-time visitors to Korea see the same polished places: the shopping streets of Seoul, a palace or two, maybe a day trip to Busan. But the Korea that locals actually live in looks different — and you find it in ordinary neighborhoods that never make the guidebooks. As someone based in Incheon, let me … Read more
Most visitors to Incheon head straight for Chinatown or the airport and never see the city where people actually live. But in the heart of Michuhol-gu, the Juan-dong neighborhood around Citizens’ Park tells a quieter, richer story — one of a vanished cultural landmark, an underground shopping maze, and a modern complex full of restaurants … Read more