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Song, Song-Do

A little more about the area in which we are staying, Song-Do or Songdo, we’ve seen it both ways. It is an International Business District, a smart city built from scratch on about 1,500 acres of reclaimed land along Incheon’s waterfront. Song-Do is 19 miles southwest of Seoul and along with Yeongjong and Cheongna it is part of the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ). I had noted some areas of interest while running, so on Friday we ventured out to explore some of the area more thoroughly. A bit of Song-Do. . .

The building on the right is the building in which we are staying. It’s completely keyless. We type in a code to enter the building and another to enter the apartment.
One of the business buildings in the area, part of the Bio Complex.
The innertron building and the ever present buses. It seems like many of the businesses here shuttle their employees to work. Our home owners work for an international school that also does that for them also.
More businesses and residential buildings.
One entrance to Incheon National University, the first two symbols are Incheon. We learned this in our metro travels to help us identify the correct train.
More of the university campus.
Song-Do International Children’s Library
The Conversia Bridge

Song-Do lies on the coast of Incheon, and the body of water along the coast opens up to the Yellow Sea. We are only a few blocks from the coast. There appears to be active water transportation and commerce activity along the coast.

Looking back towards Song-Do. This is not the harbor but an inner reclamation pond or body of water.
The coast of Song-Do
A cafe/restaurant along the coast. The painted box is speakers. They were playing music, as we walked by.

There is a lot of public art in the area. The art along, with the number of parks and their outside exercise machines, water boats, etc., makes it appealing to be outside. These are some of our favorites —

Let’s walk!
Three active figures outside of the Song-Do Convention Center
Another big head photo for Bob — the flower in the ear reminds me of the many young people we see with their ear buds in talking on the phone or listening to music.

Another interesting note to the area is that there are a number of larger grocery stores (Home Goods, Lotte, Costco); however, in order to open in the area they have to agree to close for two Sundays out of the month to help support the local smaller grocers.

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