Tag: South Korea 2024

Many visitors who buy the Busan Visitor Pass remark that the price of the pass itself can easily be covered by just a small selection of the very large number of attractions that are included in the pass. Foremost in

The initial plan after the Skyline Luge activity was for us to ride the Haeundae Blueline Park cars: but we made a mistake: these car rides are not included in the Busan Visitor Pass. Rather, a different ride was, involving

Skyline Luge was invented 23 years ago in New Zealand, and since that time has proven to be a very popular family and group activity. We’ve tried the experience at Sentosa during our family staycation during the Covid years, and

Our initial plan after a visit to Running Man Busan was to visit the Trick Eye Museum. We’d neglected to check the museum’s opening hours though, and as it turned out, the museum is closed on Monday. We quickly checked

The Running Man Busan experience center was a good 25-minute cab ride away from Songdo Bay Station, but the cab we hailed was driven by what seemed to be a part-time F1 driver: he drove at high speed, weaved in

It’s a short 5-minute walk from the Songdo Sky Park Station to the Songdo Yonggung Suspension Bridge, a steel structure that connects Amnam Park to Dongseom Island, a tiny island with the bridge platform essentially running the circumference of the

Busan has a multi-million population of 3.44 million, but the city feels compact, with several places of interest to us not too far from our Airbnb apartment. The Songdo Marine Cable Car has two stations, with most visitors usually opting

All of the places we visited after Gamcheon Culture Village were in the same general vicinity and easily walkable point to point. The route we took was Gukje Market, then BIFF Square, Jagalchi Fish Market, Gwangbokro Fashion Street, and finally

It was a short 15-minute cab ride from Gamcheon Culture Village to our next place – Gukje Market. The market has a huge number of homely shops and stores that offer a huge variety of wares, including all kinds of

Some of the most iconic pictures taken by visitors to Busan are of a small town with houses painted in cheerful colors, sitting on a steep hill. This place is Gamcheon Culture Village, which in 2009 was decorated by students,

It was actually our ang mo bud Matt who alerted me to the political tensions that started overnight two days ago: the headlines reported that the South Korean president had declared martial law in the country. That immediately got me

We’d be heading out for our 18-day vacation in South Korea soon, and here is my short post commenting on the gear and toys I’d be bringing over for the trip this time. We’d been watching, of course, the ongoing