{"id":36709,"date":"2024-12-23T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T11:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=36709"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:24:51","slug":"day-17-incheon-jung-gu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/12\/23\/day-17-incheon-jung-gu\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 17 @ Incheon – Jung-gu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incheon is actually South Korea’s third-largest city by population, after Seoul and Busan. It’s not really a well-known place for international tourism though. And for most travellers, the only encounter we would have with this city is that it is one of the country’s two main gateways by air into the country: it’s where Incheon International Airport, where we arrived, is located, and the other is Gimpo International Airport \u2014 less well known and actually closer to Seoul city than Incheon’s.<\/p>\n

We spent a night in the city, again specifically because our flight home to Singapore was going to be departing from Incheon tomorrow fairly early morning, and decided we’d just find a hotel closer to the airport to spend our final night in South Korea. The area we’re staying in this night is Jung-gu, and the ride here to Unseo Station from Gyeyang Station was about 25 minutes. We kept our expectations very low: we needed only to be able to find grub for lunch and dinner \u2014 and that’s it.<\/p>\n

To our pleasant surprise, Jung-gu wasn’t actually quite a dead district. It certainly wasn’t as busy as Seoul or even Busan, but there were at least quite a few more locals \u2014 and even tourists \u2014 about during the daytime and also evening when we stepped out to find dinner, i.e. certainly more lively than Suncheon. There were perhaps a dozen hotels in close proximity to Unseo Station. And within five minutes’ walking distance of the station, there were half a dozen coffee joints \u2014 including Coffee Bean, Starbucks, Mega Coffee, and Oozy Coffee \u2014 a three-level Daiso, and my guess is at least several dozen restaurants and eateries, including a Burger King. That really surprised us. From casual observation, it seemed to me that there were quite a few other international tourists staying in hotels around the station, and I guess also because they were catching flights at unearthly hours too.<\/p>\n

Pictures from our short exploration of the Jung-gu district!<\/p>\n

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Life right in front of Unseo Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Burger King joint across the road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Post-lunch and since it was still too early for us to check into our Incheon hotel, we ducked into a little cafe called Oozy Coffee for beverages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Caught up with blogging entries in the cafe too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Coming out for dinner at night. The weather was a cold 4 degree Celsius \u2014 but still warmer than the last couple of days in Seoul.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The area in front of Unseo Station certainly isn’t lifeless.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We found a pizzeria that was rated a very high 4.8 on Google: the little restaurant was called Youngman Pizza.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Google reviews said that the pizzeria’s owner was a really nice gentleman, and we agree! He was able to converse in simple English for us to take our pizza orders: which was a Super Supreme Large, and a Pepperoni Large. Cost was 22,900 KRW for each, and they were really yummy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Daiso near to Unseo Station. The Daiso stores we’ve seen in Seoul and also here in Jung-gu were very well-stocked, multi-floor, and also their wares were much cheaper than in Singapore. The items here started from 1,000 KRW: in Singapore, the identical item would likely cost SGD2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Where there is Starbucks in the area, there is life. LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s a wrap for Day 17. We’ll be concluding our series of posts of this trip with a Day 18 post tomorrow, reflections of our itinerary, dining experiences, and a Final Notes post soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Incheon is actually South Korea’s third-largest city by population, after Seoul and Busan. It’s not really a well-known place for international tourism though. And for most travellers, the only encounter we would have with this city is that it is<\/p>\n

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