There have been efforts to restore of the Public Garden in Inchon,port city near Seoul for the last several years.The Public Garden was built in 1884 as the first modern (non-traditional) park in Korea.The park space was provided by five foreign consulate (American/British/Chinese/German/Japanese) in Inchon.The park was thus the site of undeniably colonial past.Then,the colonial memory of the park was forgotten since the park was totally devastated during Korea War (1950-1953).Instead,the statue of Duglas MacArthur was established in the park in 1957,and The Public Garden was remodeled into The Liberty Park.Since then the statue has been playing a key role as a landmark of landscape of Inchon,conveying the ideology of anti-communist and anti-North Korea.However,recently The Public Garden (the present Liberty Park) is considered to symbolize the memorable past – multinational/multiethnic period with the opening of the port – by some cultural elite groups of the region.Photographic and pictorial images of the typically western styled architectures,though already destroyed,represents the romantic images of the Public Garden,in which the nationalistic,historic conflicts and politics in the early opening period were emasculated.The newly re-imagined images of the Public Garden are an imaginary space where regional identity of Inchon is being reconstructed through replacing political colonial memory with de-political postcolonial discourses.Popular memories and main stream nationalist discourses on colonial period are intentionally forgotten,and memories of ideological conflicts in the postwar period inscribed in the park are tacitly avoided.Ultimately,confrontational politics of nationality is displaced with illusionary landscape of cosmopolitan fin de siècle Inchon,which is being mobilized as cultural backdrop for the current developmental[ist] visions of Inchon city government.