Everything about Songdo

 

 

Everything about

Songdo

 

 

Songdo in Incheon is an international city located a mere 20 minutes the Incheon International Airport. Songdo serves as the distribution hub of Northeast Asia, but it is also so much more. Songdo is filled with tourist attractions, food, and entertainment. Here is everything you need to know about Songdo.

 

Writer Jang Gyeong-seon Photos Kim Seong-hwan

 

 

Songdo’s Spectacle

 

 

Central Park
Central Park is the pivotal park connecting all of the tourist attractions of Songdo International City. When it was developed, Central Park in New York and the sluice ways of Venice served as its benchmark. Today, water-taxies operate along the sluice ways inside the park, and visitors can leisurely enjoy all the famous tourist spots, taking in skyscrapers, Tri-bowl, and the G-Tower of Songdo International City in about 25 minutes. Visitors can also seasonally enjoy water-bikes and canoes. Moreover, a waterfront café selling tea and snacks is located at the water-taxi dock.
In addition to Central Park, ‘Michuhol Park’ has recreated the view of a Korean traditional park, and “Sunrise Park” offers sports tracks for jogging, cycling, and inline skating. Moreover, “Sinsong Park”, connected to “Sunrise Park (or Haedoji Park)” by an arched bridge, is a green park overgrown with flowers and trees. “Moonlight Park (or Dalbit Park)” is well-known for its nature experience learning field for children, which includes a bird garden, a wetland garden, and the nature learning center.

 

 

Tri-bowl
Tri-bowl is a multi-purpose cultural center built with outstanding aesthetic appeal. “Korean-wave” stars such as Rain and Psy have even filmed their music videos in this site. The name Tri-bowl combines “triple” meaning three and “bowl” meaning bowl or container. As the name implies, this facility literally was built in the shape of three bowls. These three bowls symbolize the sky, the sea, and the land. It is located in the middle of a waterfront space, and therefore, makes visitors feel as if the three bowls were floating over the water.

 

 

NC CUBE Canal Walk
NC CUBE Canal Walk is a premium outlet shopping mall in Songdo. It consists of low-rise European buildings that symbolize the spring, summer, fall, and winter, and each block is created with a different concept. A long waterway notably runs between the buildings on each side, and along the waterway, sculptures, fountains, and stepping-stones are featured. A number of sophisticated European street cafes are lined up around the waterway selling tea and brunch. During weekends, cultural events such as performances, exhibitions, and events are also plentiful.

 

 

 

Songdo ConvensiA
Songdo ConvensiA, modeled after the Sydney Opera House, is an exhibition hall with four stories above ground and one story underground. While it is a key facility for hosting important domestic and international events, when no meetings or conferences are being held, it is utilized as a cultural experience space for citizens. It becomes a water park during the summer and is transformed into a sledding park for children during the winter. Convenience facilities such as a book café and a convenience store are located on the first floor of Songdo ConvensiA.

 

                                                              

Songdo’s Attractions     

 

 

Jack Nicklaus Golf Club
The Songdo Jack Nicklaus Golf Course is Korea’s first urban premium golf club. It was designed by Jack Nicklaus himself, the legend of the golf world. It has convenience facilities including meetings rooms for businessmen, a wine bar with sommeliers always   present, a swimming pool, and a fitness center. The men’s Presidents Cup is scheduled to be hosted there in 2015, and the U.S. national team will compete against the rest of world’s teams combined.

 

 

Songdo Sports Park
The Songdo Sports Park is operated by the Environmental Corporation of Incheon and it provides a space for visitors to enjoy leports such as swimming, golf, rock-climbing, squash, volleyball, and basketball. The swimming pool is renowned for its water quality, and next to the swimming pool, a diving pool that allows diving and skin scuba diving is also provided. Visitors can also use the natural grass soccer field, tennis court, x-game field, gate-ball field, lawn bowling alley, and boccia field.

 

 

Songdo Good Market
Songdo Good Market is a flea market that has been running since 2011. It has taken the lead in creating a culture of good consumption by donating profits from the flea market to poor neighbors. This year, the Good Market is planned to be held at Central Park on the last Saturdays in April, May, September, and October. Visitors can enjoy various experiences and cultural performances there.

 

                                             

Songdo food   

 

 

Fiesta
Fiesta is Songdo’s foremost seafood buffet restaurant. Visitors can taste a variety of seafood including fresh live fish from the sea, oysters, sea cucumbers, live squid, king crabs, and snow crabs. In addition, guests can enjoy a cuisine from different countries such as Korean food, Chinese food, Japanese food, and Western dishes. Short-order dishes such as seafood cream pasta, Vietnam rice noodles, and Mongolian instant fried noodles that are cooked immediately after ordering are highly popular in this restaurant.

 

 

J’s Recipe
J’s Recipe is a European bakery. It produces baked goods using a natural fermentation process, without baking powder or yeast. Thanks to this, its taste is chewy and plain and produces a more delicate flavor the more you chew it. More importantly, these low-calorie baked items can be easily digested as they use natural ingredients. There is a free-sample stand next to the counter.

 

 

Comble
This restaurant is characterized by its “order-made slow food” concept, which means that the cooking starts with the order. Comble makes healthy food without any synthetic flavoring. It selects all of its own food ingredients and uses only organic vegetables for its salads. It also produces its own teriyaki sauce. The effect is a taste that is less greasy, clean and light. The most popular items include teriyaki, steaks, and yakisoba, and salads.

 

 

Club GIUMM
Club GIUMM is the place to enjoy live music. Every evening performances start at 8:30pm and run for about one hour. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are “Lounge GIUMM” nights, with performances from jazz bands, and Thursday, Friday, and Saturday are “Party GIUMM” nights, with pop and brass bands creating the excitement. The most popular things on the menu are its instant grilled dishes using steak, seafood, mushrooms, and homemade sausages.