Monday, May 4, 2009

BUSAN... South Korea (S.E. Corner)

Busan is a 3 hour KTX Train ride from Seoul. It's on the south-east corner of South Korea, and it's a beach city. I went with my friends Jen and Wendy for a weekend.
Friday night began just stellar. We went to the university area, and ran into 8 Korean guys who took us to a local hof (pub)!! Lots of fun!
Busan is a bit different than Seoul. There are still a lot of waegookins there (foriengers) teaching, but not as many as Seoul. Korean people speak a lot more to you, and try out their English skills with you! It's great fun!

Outside of the subway/train station.
Jagalchi Fish Market! Its 3 blocks of agummas (married women) and aggasi's (married men) selling all sorts of fish! It's stinky, crowed and a site to see :) :)


One of the beaches is called Haeundae. It's a pretty busy tourist beach, but we sat back and enjoyed watching some teens play all of these make up games. It was HILARIOUS.
Ah...so relaxing.

Jen, Wendy and I. Too bad it wasn't a bit warmer. Regardless, the waves are gorgeous.
This kid was hilarious. He ran around and hit this girl (foreinger girl) who was trying to play the games with the teens. Ha Ha. He had no shame, and we laughed our butts off. lol

On May 2nd was Buddha's birthday! We went to Hangdae Temple to see the lanterns all lit up! W O W~!



This is one of the few temples in the world that is on the water front~
Many-a lanterns.


Totally stunning.

Saturday night, again approached by some Korean guys and given some beer instantly. Koreans love Canadians. It's hilarious!!

Us at "Thursday Party." A bar on the beach front!!

Nothing like NoriBong (kareoke) at all wee hours of the night!!!

Sing it dude, Take it away.

Gwangali Beach!!

Koreans LOVE to dress up their dogggies. BUT I've never seen this!
Check out her blush AND her manicured feet!!!!!!!!!!
This was the best thing that happened all day! These CUTE doggies are tied up and running around together, carrying their owners beach toys! :)
AGAIN. A man and wife see us laying down and kind of stop and linger, and ask to take a picture with us~! We had to make a fist, no idea why ... when in Rome!

Longest Suspension Bridge in Korea! Gwangali Beach.

The BEST way to end this trip.
This guy gets on the subway and he sees us and just starts spitting out every single english word he knew. It was side splitting:
"Hello, Goodbye, How are you? I'm hungry. I'm tired. I'm not crazy."
He asked where we were from, I said Canada. Then he said, he loved Canada and we were beautiful. Then he starts singing "thank you" in Korean ... "Gammmssammmmnniiiddaaa"
Oh man, we were losing it. Good times. Good times had by all.

Press Play! Fish Market!!!

Press Play!! Temple during Buddha's Birthday. Totally breath taking.

1 comment:

  1. Wait until it gets warm in the summer- you can't even find a place to sit down, the beach is so crowded! I went on a cold day too- dipped a toe in the water haha.
    Glad to see you're having a blast there. Have you decided where you're going to go on vacay yet? On the first week most people go to China, then Thailand on the 2nd. Thailand all the way!!!

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