Emily and I decided to take a day trip to Incheon's Chinatown. This isn't like Chinatown in New York. There are pretty much zero Chinese people there these days, but it was historically the place where Chinese immigrants would settle. South Korea's main port was (and still is) Incheon, so they would live there and work on the docks. It's also the birthplace of what all Korean people consider the quintessential Chinese dish: jajangmyeon (noodles in a black bean sauce).
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| The entrance to Chinatown. I think every single Chinatown I've been to has had one. New York's is on the bridge, Boston's is right there the second you get in. |
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| This is the entrance to a very nice park. |
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| This sculpture is supposed to represent US-Korean co-operation... |
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| it kind of looks like a big piece of poop. |
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| That is General Douglas MacArthur. |
At my insistence we had to seek out the giant statue of General MacArthur. He was the mastermind behind the Incheon amphibious landing after all. That's about the only good thing he did during the Korean War, but that's a lot of history stuff that would just bore everyone.
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