Incheon Chinatown
Korea's largest Chinatown — birthplace of jjajangmyeon, with painted alleys and street snacks.
Why go
Incheon Chinatown, right by the port, is Korea's oldest and largest Chinatown — a colourful maze of Chinese restaurants, bakeries and mural-lined stairways.
It's the birthplace of jjajangmyeon (black-bean noodles), and the Jjajangmyeon Museum tells the story.
The quarter grew after the port opened to foreign trade in 1883 and Chinese merchants settled here. Highlights today include the Samgukji murals retelling the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Jjajangmyeon Museum in a historic restaurant, and the adjoining Songwol-dong 'fairy-tale village'.
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Good to know
- Try jjajangmyeon and freshly-steamed gonggal-ppang bread.
- Walk up to the Samgukji mural street and the fairy-tale village next door.
- It's a short walk from Incheon Station on Line 1.
- Arrive hungry for jjajangmyeon and hollow gonggal-ppang bread. It's right by Incheon Station at the end of Line 1, and pairs with the Wolmido waterfront a short ride away.
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