When a single park changes its name four times, that is not a history of landscaping. It is a history of politics.
1888 — All Nations Park
Jayu Park, laid out in 1888, is Korea’s first Western-style park Fact. After the opening of Incheon port a foreign residents’ association ran it, so people of the time called it All Nations Park Fact. It sat inside the general foreign concession of Ep.2, so the name itself declared where it belonged Estimate.
1914 — West Park
As Japanese power grew, the foreign settlements were abolished in 1914, and when management passed to Incheon prefecture it became West Park Fact. What matters is that the name changed for reasons of jurisdiction, not gardening — the end of the concession system in Ep.2 reached as far as the park’s sign Estimate.
1945, and 1957
After liberation it was called Manguk Park Fact. Then from 3 October 1957, when a statue of General MacArthur, who commanded the Incheon Landing, was erected, it was renamed Jayu Park Fact. Korea’s modern history — beginning with the port opening, passing through colonisation and war, arriving at the Cold War — is written in order on one park’s nameplate Estimate.
How to walk it
On the route, climbing the boundary staircase of Ep.2 brings you here Fact. It sits on the hill with an open view toward the harbour, which makes it the right place to look back over the concessions and buildings you walked in earlier chapters Estimate. That is why this series places Jayu Park mid-course: look down once from here, go back down, and the remaining layers read differently.