{"id":35790,"date":"2024-12-08T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=35790"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T12:19:41","slug":"day-02-busan-gamcheon-culture-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2024\/12\/08\/day-02-busan-gamcheon-culture-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 02 @ Busan – Gamcheon Culture Village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>, which in 2009 was decorated by students, artists, and residents to turn it into the famous tourist attraction of the city.<\/p>\n

We read that the village can get really crowded, so we made visiting this place our first stop on our first full free day of exploration on Day 02. The village is a short 18-minute cab ride away from our apartment, and we got there plenty early at 8:30AM. The cab driver wasn’t quite sure where to drop us off once we got to the village area itself, but we hazard a guess and pointed at a random stop that looked interesting and got off. As it turned out, that spot where we alighted was where the statues of the Little Prince and Desert Fox were, and what is apparently the most photographed place in the village. We were about the only visitors in the area when we arrived. But by the time we left at noon, there was a long snaking queue of visitors waiting for their turn to pose with the two statues.<\/p>\n

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The taxi took us up a steep hill to Gamcheon Culture Village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Barely anyone about at 8:40AM in the morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Hello there.” The Fox statue was undergoing refurbishment and covered up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’d initially intended to spend just two hours in the village, but ended up spending three. The most interesting bits of the village seem to lie in a stretch that runs for perhaps 200 meters of walking, with the two statues nearing one end of the stretch. There was a flipbook photo studio where visitors can do 8-second poses for the studio to turn into a super cool flip animation book. The shoot and book are included in the Busan Visitor Pass, but we didn’t avail ourselves of this opportunity as we were only going to activate the pass on Day 03. So, we booked our shoot and photo book through Klook, and paid SGD13 for it. The completed book is really cool, but to get the best animation sequence, you’d really need to think ahead of the kind of stunt you want to do over 8 seconds! Not to worry on ideation though: there are many sample flipbooks in the studio for visitors to browse and plan with.<\/p>\n

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We had about an hour to kill before the Flipbook Studio opened for business at 10AM, so ducked into a small eatery for breakfast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Eating hot ramen on a cold chilly morning of zero degrees Celsius is the bomb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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No queue outside the studio earlier in the morning. Queues started forming at 9:45AM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The completed little photo book from Flipbook Studio. Super worth it at SGD13 and a fun family activity!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The shop where we had our family photo printed on a wooden frame.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The completed product. There are four sizes, with the largest one – pictured here – costing 40,000 KRW. The printing itself takes 25 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The studio opened at 10AM, and there was a long queue waiting when it opened. There were five groups ahead of us, and each took around 6 to 8 minutes. We waited around 30 minutes before we got to our turn, and our session was a chop-chop 6 minutes for us to plan, do a quick couple of rehearsals, and for the photographer to capture the necessary sequence. After that, it was another 25 minutes for the book to get printed and bound.<\/p>\n

There was also an interesting shop that was turning digital photographs into photos laser-engraved onto wood. We thought this would be something to decorate our home with, so went for it and paid 40,000 KRW for the largest picture.<\/p>\n

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A panorama of Gamcheon Culture Village. There was very harsh morning sunlight: if you want the best pictures, I reckon you’d want to come in the early afternoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Postman humor. :)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of places to take pictures of the village.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In all, a visit to Gamcheon Culture Village is a must-stop. Aside from it truly being picturesque, the 200-meter stretch is filled with cafes, artisan, trinket, and souvenir shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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,<\/p>\n

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