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Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu July 2nd 2012

Another Busan blog update! Hope its not boring to keep reading about Busan as this time we had some different experiences! The original plan last weekend was to go to Busan, stay in a jimjilbang on Friday and camp on the beach on Saturday. The weather forecast for the whole weekend looked dreadful but Ash and I along with Nat and Drew and Louis and Philne decided to continue with our trip and make the most of the weekend even if we couldn’t camp. We rushed to Daegu station after school and boarded the Mugunghwa (slower and cheaper than the KTX) train to Busan. It took an hour and half to get there but the upshot of this was the train having a really good snack bar with computers, a mini noraebang room, a room with ... read more
View from Vest Jimjilbang
Hot stone room in Vesta jimjilbang
Busan Aquarium

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu June 28th 2012

This is done the next day and it is actually sunny outdoors so I should be out there. However my devotion to a hopefully short blog continues. Got a taxi to the airport in the fine rain (again). Checked in with no difficulty but Jeju airport is a fairly busy place -- compared to arrival at Busan anyway where not as much seemed to be happening. The flight is only about 50 minutes which was mostly over the cloud. On arrival, as it was early to check in at a hotel anyway, I did some thinking and reading at the airport. Fatefully (now it seems) decided that I would stay at Haeundae Beach as much because metro line 2 goes there from a connection point off the airport light rail. This is an overground system which ... read more
Gwaebeop etc sign
Busan subway danger doors
view from Lord Beach Hotel

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu June 18th 2012

Jules’ dramatic entrance I can’t explain how excited I was when one of my best friends in the world Jules told me that on her way home from travelling in South East Asia she was taking a two week detour to South Korea. I was also ecstatic that my other very good friend (and ginger brother from another mother) Rowan just happened to be on a month long holiday in Japan at the same time too! We coordinated all of our diaries and arranged to meet up in South Korea. Exciting times. Jules arrived in to Seoul in dramatic style and realised she couldn’t get money out of the ATM which meant I spent the evening in sporadic Skype contact fretting about her. Luckily she sorted her problems and got to her destination. She arrived in ... read more
Brits abroad!
Jagalchi Fish market
Yuck

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu June 2nd 2012

If Seoul is the Madrid of South Korea, Busan is the Barcelona of South Korea (a conclusion my dad and I came to). Suffice to say, Busan was the perfect place to go for our long weekend. It felt nice to get out of a busy metropolis and travel down south to a beach city... Haeundae Beach was phenom! I never thought I would like seeing so many tourists, but it was comforting to finally hear other people speaking English. There are 99.9% Koreans residing in South Korea, so its very rare to see another westerner lingering the streets of Seoul. In Busan however, there were tourists everywhere. It felt nice for a change. There were intense sand castles being created for a festival the next weekend. They had even hired a man to stand all ... read more
Fish Lady
FRESH sushi
Beeeach!

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu May 1st 2012

We caught the 7:10am KTX (fast train) to Busan. Train tickets in Korea can now be reserved online at www.korail.com - a very user friendly website! We arrived in Busan just before 10am to rain. It took us while to find our ‘hostel’ as it was actually just some guys apartment that had bunk beds in it. It was in an apartment high rise in the business and bar district of Busan. The 'hostel' was cozy but not as clean as the rest of the hostels we stayed at in Korea. We spent our first day in Busan going to South Korea’s largest fish market, the Jagalchi Fish Market. We wandered the alleys checking out all of the sea creatures for sale and watching old ladies clean fish at a rate so fast it was almost ... read more
Jagalchi Fish Market
Drying Racks - Jagalchi Fish Market
Jagalchi Fish Market

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu October 28th 2011

Scottathan, who I met at the Korean burn invted me to come to Busan whenever, so I went over a long weekend. Seocheon is a great place to get some rest on a weekend. How's that for a backhanded compliment?) All together it took about 5 hours to get to Busan from my front door. 5 hours is on the long side of traveling around this country, per most opinions I've received. Anyway, it was a good bus ride. Korea has great roads, much better than Yunnan province in China. I never held on to anything to keep from crashing into another person, or feared the bush might also crash. Expectations. Keep them low and you're bound to be pleasantly surprised. After arriving at the Busan Central Bus station, which must have been named on Opposite ... read more
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Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu September 25th 2010

Dear Blog Readers, …Mafia Man, Casanova, the three engineers and a personal trainer are teaching us Korean under a tarpaulin on the side of the street in Busan whilst Laura, drunk from soju and beer, is being fed somebody else’s fish dipped in some sauce from the woman who has just cooked us it! Joanna, Claire, Laura and I pose the simplest of Korean questions to our new friends, “norrebang?”, which is met with an uproar of approval… So where do I begin from last week’s blog? After our awkward meeting on Friday afternoon, we went out for a drink with Betty and Chris at a local bar. The next sentence would probably send shock waves ringing throughout all the bars and pubs in England since on a Friday night, in this small bar in Boeun, ... read more
Ice Cream
Nice Hat
Norrebang

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu August 14th 2010

Nearly a MONTH has flown by since my last post. Things have been very busy around here with summer intensives. We are teaching classes in the morning and all afternoon/evening. I work every MWF in the morning and Jake works every TR in the morning. We are at the school from 9am-1pm and then we have to be back at 3pm until 10pm. It makes for a long day....and long weeks! Also, we've traveled somewhere every weekend so we're nearing the point of exhaustion! But it's been so fun and I'm sad that summer is nearly gone. But that won't stop me from making the best out of the rest of it. Since I've written, we went to Boryeong, which is a beach town a couple hours away on the coast of the Yellow Sea. They ... read more
colored mud
body boys
Welcome to Boryeong

Asia » South Korea » Busan » Haeundae-gu June 4th 2010

My friend and I were in desperate need of vacation and agreed on an impulsive trip to the Southern Coast of South Korea. We took the KTX train to Busan (3 hrs from Seoul) and a flight on Korean Air for the return (40 mins to Gimpo Airport) using our hard-earned money to splurge away our hard-earned stress. Don't get me wrong, working in Korea has many perks (like the pay, opportunities to travel, hilarious students that always make your day...), but it is also riddled with tiring obstacles (melodramatic office politics, disorganization, an educative system that needs revamping...). We arrived late Friday evening and my friend's acquaintance picked us up. As a local, he knew all the hidden spots. In the span of an hour-and-a-half, he showed us every prime angle of Busan with the ... read more
Lanterns at Gwanganlli
Gorgeous Trek
Scuba Diver's Home




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