Incheon Subway Line 1: A Local’s Station-by-Station Guide

A railway platform at Bupyeong Station with overhead direction signs

Most visitors to Incheon see exactly two things: the airport, and whatever they pass on the express train to Seoul. The city of three million people in between goes unnoticed. Incheon Subway Line 1 is the spine of that city. It runs north to south, from a new town most Koreans have never visited to … Read more

G-Tower Songdo: Incheon’s Free 33rd-Floor Observatory

The angular, notched facade of G-Tower rising above trees in Songdo, Incheon

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