Busan 🇰🇷
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Mountains on one side, the sea on the other.
Neighbourhoods
A city is too big to plan an evening around
K-Drama in Busan
The bench, the breakwater, the stone wall
Culture in Busan
Shrines, palaces and quiet rooms
Gamcheon Culture Village
A hillside of pastel houses stacked in terraces.
Huinnyeoul Culture Village
White houses on a cliff, with a path along the sea below.
Haedong Yonggungsa
A temple built onto the rocks, with waves underneath it.
Busan Cinema Center
The world’s longest cantilevered roof, covered in LEDs.
BIFF Square
The old cinema street the film festival grew out of.
Forty-Step Stairway
Forty steps where families searched for each other.
Landmarks in Busan
The ones worth the crowd
Haeundae Beach
Korea's most famous beach, under a wall of skyscrapers.
Gwangalli Beach
A lit suspension bridge across the whole horizon.
Songjeong Beach
Busan's surf beach, a few stops past the crowds.
Taejongdae
Cliffs, pines and a lighthouse at the end of the island.
Cheongsapo Daritdol Skywalk
A glass walkway out over the water in a fishing village.
Yongdusan Park & Busan Tower
A hill park above Nampo, with the harbour laid out below.
Food in Busan
Markets, counters and late kitchens
Jagalchi Market
Korea's biggest fish market — buy downstairs, eat upstairs.
Gukje Market
The refugee market that became the city’s centre.
Bupyeong Kkangtong Night Market
Korea’s first permanent night market.
Busan Chinatown
A Chinese street and a Russian street, back to back.
Bujeon Market
Busan’s biggest traditional market, and its least polished.
Seomyeon Food Alley
The eating grid behind Busan’s busiest junction.
Shopping in Busan
Vintage, design and everything odd
Cafés in Busan
Long sits and good coffee
Quieter corners of Busan
13 places most visitors walk past