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
I grew up in this neighborhood, and Moraenae Market Incheon was just part of the landscape — the place my family went for produce, not a destination you’d plan a trip around. It’s only looking back that I realize how much that kind of ordinary familiarity is exactly what a market like this represents: not … Read more