Incheon was always one of those "yeah, I'll go there someday" places that I never really quite got round to highlighting as visited in my tattered 2001 edition Lonely Planet. And then I moved there (well, Bupyeong), a year ago.
Despite now having little excuse not to travel the short distance along the subway line to the final station and explore the surrounding area, the city's reputation as a rather dull industrial centre filled with factories all-but-convinced me it would have been a wasted journey.
Besides gleaming shots of Incheon airport and some aerial snaps of the Munhak World Cup stadium, there's precious little of the city itself in Google's image search and even the major Korean portals such as Daum and Naver are similarly undersupplied.
A chance visit to The Marmot's Hole, or more specifically the flickr gallery images randomly displayed on the page with each visit, turned up some interesting photographs of colonial era Japanese buildings in the city, and suggested that there just might be something of interest lying in wait at the end of the line.
And so this blog was born... an attempt to document Incheon in photographs, words and news clippings, considerably more rewarding than the swift stroke of a luminous highlighter.
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