"Busan: experience traditional Korea" Busan by theguardianangel

Busan Travel Guide: 304 reviews and 739 photos

Traditional Korea

Busan is the 2nd largest city of South Korea next to Seoul.
Busan is the recommended place to visit in South Korea for a cultural experience.
It is less crowded compared to Seoul making it a very nice place to roam around
especially when you feel like sentimenting about life... haha... that's just how I see it.

The people

Season of Fall

There are a lot of tourists spots scattered all over Busan but still it's being overlooked to be visited.

I just noticed that there were only a few young people around and they say that the young ones have transferred in the city (Seoul) while some go to abroad like in the Philippines, where they can study English.

Instead of young locals, there were a lot of foreigners seen here doing business and some studying.
And then we met a French exchange student named Ven (I hope I remember his name right).
He introduced a bit about Busan to us.
At first, he didn’t told us his Nationality but I know he’s French due to his accent (I was right). He stayed for 3 months in Busan then at the end of the week he’ll be flying to Japan… again to study. Then for another 3 months, he’ll fly to Vietnam, Thailand and to other parts of Asia as well. I believe he studies the world to be a business tycoon in the future (I’m not kidding).

He’s very friendly though and because he mentioned his Asian tour, we also mentioned the Philippines. We’re not surprised that he doesn’t plan to travel in our country. And because of that, my friend and I introduced it to him. We even forced him to travel by the new year.
I hope he comes even though we don’t have any form of communication.
I just hope he sees the beauty of our country:)

Pros and Cons

Pros:a very relaxing place
Cons:ALL ATMs don't accept foreign cards!!!
In a nutshell:Busan: experience the real korea

Last visit to Busan: Nov 2011
Intro Updated Jan 28, 2012
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theguardianangel Jan 14, 2012 at 3:12 AM

thanks!
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salisbury3933 Jan 13, 2012 at 7:19 PM

Nice page. Busan is a good city to visit for a day or two.