Apr 2006

April 21-22, 2006

Busan is located in the southest part of Korea peninsula. It is one of most dense population and known as largest port city. Seoul people said that they have different accent when Busan people speak Korea. mmm .. I think so, little bit different. I visited Busan for 2 days after finishing a confrence in Daegu city by express train (KTX). By train, you will stop at Busan station which is already downtown of Busan. So, try to 'taste' the night of Busan downtown. Not as crowded as Seoul, but oke, I think.

As it is located near the beach, the main food will be sea food. Fresh sea food with delicious ways of cooking (I mean: korean ways^^). The important point is try to bargain the price first before you eat or enter the food shop that you can get the low price. The are many shop beside the beach and sometimes they compete to give the special price. Unfortunatelly, they only able to speak in Korea.
The most famous beach is Haeundae Beach where so many Korean gather at noon and sometimes it is still crowded during night in the summer season. Near there, so many hotels with cheap price or probably you can find cheap youth hostel in this area. Last time, I slept in the hostel with no-bed (they only give blanket and pillow) and the price is really cheap. Night time near the beach is also nice, may pubs also.
If you visited Busan, don't forget to visit APEC park. APEC is the meeting of asian pacific country leader related to the economic, politic issue. Some nice buidings there with the complete documentation of APEC meeting.
As in 2002, Korea held the world cup, a world cup stadium is also exsisted here named as Busan wold cup stadium. The design is very good, i think better than Seoul world cup stadium.