Why visit the Goblin Incheon locations
Goblin (도깨비, tvN 2016–2017) is mostly remembered for Seoul palaces and the Gangneung sea, but six of its stops sit in Incheon — and they show a different Korea from the capital. Baedari, east of the old port, grew up as the Korean neighborhood beside the foreign concessions, and its secondhand book street once held around 40 shops. Hanmi Bookstore, trading since 1961, is one of the few left; its yellow front became a photo spot after the drama.
The Jemulpo Club stands at the other end of old Incheon, on the Jayu Park hill above the Open Port streets. Built in 1901 as the social club of Incheon’s American, British, French, German and Russian residents, the brick building is now a small cultural space — and, per VisitKorea, the stand-in for Chairman Yu’s house in the drama.
Jayu Park itself holds the briefest stop. The Incheon Tourism Organization’s Goblin page says the filming spot is in front of the park’s G-Mart, where Eun-tak — complaining about her situation — accidentally summoned Kim Shin. The appearance was brief, the page notes, but the scene drew wide attention. The park around it, Korea’s first Western-style park, crowns the hill next to Chinatown, with General MacArthur’s statue at the top.
A fourth stop sits in Songhyeon-dong, a short hop from Dongincheon Station: Songhyeon Neighborhood Park, a large local park with artificial waterfalls and ponds. The Incheon Tourism Organization’s Goblin page names it as the park where Eun-tak and Kim Shin kept meeting by chance, and the Sudoguksan Museum of Housing and Living — a look at ordinary Incheon homes of the 1960s and 70s — stands at its edge.
The fifth stop sits across the city in Cheongna International City: Cheongna Lake Park, a big waterfront park with a musical fountain, known as a night-view date course. The Incheon Tourism Organization names it as the park where the Goblin revealed the sword to Eun-tak — and where she promised to draw it out when the first snow came.
The sixth stop returns to the Open Port: Incheon Art Platform in Haean-dong, a culture and art complex created in 2009 from 13 buildings near the port, their 1930s and 40s fabric remodeled with its old appearance kept. The Incheon Tourism Organization’s Hallyu page says the platform often appears as a location for TV dramas including Goblin. Today it works as a creative studio, exhibition hall, performance hall and life culture center, so a visit pairs the drama stop with whatever exhibition is on.
The five old-town stops are free, close to Line 1 stations, and easy to pair in one day trip from Seoul; they also combine naturally with the Open Port museums, Chinatown and the Baedari matchstick-factory museum between them. Cheongna Lake Park is free too, and makes its own evening leg.
How we checked these locations
Hanmi Bookstore is marked “confirmed”: two independent official sources — VisitKorea (Korea Tourism Organization) and a Korea.kr policy-briefing feature — name it as a Goblin filming location, and the Incheon Tourism Organization’s Hallyu page says the same. The Jemulpo Club is also “confirmed”: VisitKorea’s Gaehang-ro guide names the scene filmed in front of it, and the Incheon Tourism Organization’s Hallyu page independently names the club as the Goblin and Grim Reaper’s meeting place. Cheongna Lake Park is “confirmed” as well: the Incheon Tourism Organization’s Goblin locations page and VisitKorea’s park listing both describe the sword-reveal scene there. Songhyeon Neighborhood Park is “reported”: the Incheon Tourism Organization’s Goblin locations page names it, with no independent second source so far. Jayu Park is also “reported”: the same ITO page names the G-Mart front in the park as a filming spot, and no independent official or press second source has been found yet. Incheon Art Platform is “reported” too: the Incheon Tourism Organization’s Hallyu page says it often appears as a location for TV dramas including Goblin, and no independent official or press second source has been found yet.
We do not use drama stills. The photos on this page are location photos — the bookshop and club from Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA licenses, and the Songhyeon Park path from Incheon City on KOGL (공공누리 제1유형) — showing the places as they look today. Practical details (the club’s hours and holidays, the bookshop’s no-interior-photos rule, the park’s open-year-round note, the Art Platform’s Monday closure and free entry) come from the official pages listed below, checked on Oct 20, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026, and can change — confirm on your travel day.
If a location closes, changes access, or is found to be misattributed, we update the guide and note the change. See the “Sources” section below for every claim in this guide.
Getting there (transit)
Fares and schedules change. Prefer official pages on your travel day.
Incheon is on the metropolitan rail network: Line 1 runs from central Seoul to Dongincheon, the station for Baedari and Hanmi Bookstore, and on to the Open Port end of the city, where the Jemulpo Club stands above Jayu Park. Check today’s trains on Korail or the official Korail timetable, and plan the last mile with the Kakao Map and Naver Map links on the stop cards. Cheongna Lake Park, in Cheongna International City west of the old port, is a separate leg — plan it with the map links on its stop card.
Sources
All sources for this guide
Accessed Oct 20, 2026 and Oct 21, 2026 (Asia/Seoul).
- VisitKorea (KTO) — Old-town Incheon (Dongincheon) theme trip (Hanmi Bookstore filming, 1961 opening, no interior photos)
- Korea.kr (대한민국 정책브리핑) — Neighborhood bookshops in Seoul and Incheon (Hanmi Bookstore named a Goblin filming location; Baedari street address)
- Incheon Tourism Organization — Hallyu-inspired locations (Hanmi Bookstore “appeared in the drama Goblin”; Jemulpo Club as the Goblin and Grim Reaper’s meeting place; Cheongna Lake Park as a Goblin filming location; Incheon Art Platform “often appears as a location for TV dramas ”)
- VisitKorea (KTO) — Gaehang-ro: Incheon’s old port streets (Jemulpo Club Goblin scene)
- Seoul Media Hub (Seoul Metropolitan Government) — Baedari Secondhand Bookstore Street (walking route from Dongincheon Station Exit 2)
- Korail — https://www.korail.com/global/eng
- Incheon Tourism Organization — Incheon Filming Locations: Goblin (Songhyeon Neighborhood Park, Jayu Park G-Mart front and Cheongna Lake Park filming mentions, scene notes and addresses)
- VisitKorea (KTO) — Cheongna Lake Park attraction listing (Spanish edition) (park “appeared in the series Goblin”; the drunken secret-reveal walk; Crystal-ro 59 address)
- VisitKorea (KTO) — Incheon Art Platform attraction listing (Jemullyang-ro 218beon-gil 3 address; closed Mondays and New Year’s Day; free entry except special programs and performances; visit information only — this listing does not mention filming)
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