[Harumanbo] The Road Connecting Disappearing Villages

‘all ways Incheon’ Many roads connect in Incheon. From small alleys and mountain paths to highways, railroads, sea routes, and airways... Incheon communicates with the world through its roads. Among these many paths, we introduce the Incheon Dullegil, which adds the joy of walking by allowing you to feel Incheon's history, culture, nature, and people.

Sudo Guksan Dal-dong Neighborhood Museum Preserving Memories of the Hill Village

Course 11, also called Yeontan-gil, starts from Dowon Station and passes Changyeong Elementary School, Baedari Used Bookstore Street, and the Sudoguksan Dal-dongne Museum before reaching Dongincheon Station. It retraces memories lost during Incheon's urban history and redevelopment process. Especially, since this path has many alleys, do not forget to show consideration for the people who live and have settled here while walking. Changyeong Elementary School, Incheon's first public elementary school, was established on December 9, 1907, and graduated its first class on March 26, 1910. During the March 1st Movement, students held protests and were imprisoned, making it a focal point of the Incheon area’s independence movement.

Now, entering Baedari Used Bookstore Street, filled with various memories. After the Korean War, where ruins once stood, handcarts and street vendors gathered, and at one time, there were about 40 used bookstores clustered here. Even now, old used bookstores guard the street. Crossing the road after leaving the bookstore street and passing Songnim 1-dong Administrative Welfare Center, you arrive at Songhyeon Neighborhood Park on Sudoguksan. Around the Faucet Plaza at the summit of Sudoguksan, there are a museum and a children's playground.

Faucet Plaza in Songhyeon Neighborhood Park

Following the park’s walking trail, you will find the Songhyeon Water Tank Valve Room facility where Incheon’s water supply began, and at the end awaits the Sudoguksan Dal-dongne Museum. Sudoguksan Dal-dongne began around 1908 when the Songhyeon water tank was built, prospered through the Korean War and industrialization in the 1960s and 70s, but disappeared into history due to urban redevelopment in the early 2000s. The Sudoguksan Dal-dongne Museum opened in 2005 as an experience-centered museum to revive the fading stories of the Dal-dongne. It received donations from former residents and recreated the actual shops and alleys, such as a cotton carding house, barber shop, briquette store, and tea room. Although the path is steep, put on comfortable shoes and walk with a relaxed mind while thinking about why this path is called Yeontan-gil.

The narrow alleys and the stories of the people living there, the joyful laughter of children playing rubber band games and tag have become hard to see again as the Dal-dongne disappeared, but we still have people to share those memories with.

Incheon Dullegil Course 11

● Distance and Duration: 4.9km, 1 hour 55 minutes

● Route: Dowon Station - Geumchang-dong Community Center - Changyeong Elementary School - Baedari Used Bookstore Street - Songhyeon Neighborhood Park - Sudoguksan Dal-dongne Museum - Dongincheon Station

● Transportation: Line 1 Dowon Station (Exit 3), Main buses 15, 22, 28, Branch buses 506, Dong-gu-2, Incheon e-eum 21 (Get off at Dowon Hill (Dowon Station))